Translation of "Statuer sur une réclamation " (French → English) :

(a) if the objection is to the claim of a creditor and the parties are brought to agreement or if the creditor’s claim is a judgment of a court and the only objection is to the amount paid thereon, he may dispose of the objection in a summary manner and determine the amount owing to the creditor;

(a) if the objection is to the claim of a creditor and the parties are brought to agreement or if the creditor’s claim is a judgment of a court and the only objection is to the amount paid thereon, he may dispose of the objection in a summary manner and determine the amount owing to the creditor;

Persons or organisations regarded under national law as having a legitimate interest in protecting consumer contractual rights should be afforded the right to initiate proceedings, either before a court or before an administrative authority which is competent to decide upon complaints or to initiate appropriate legal proceedings.

In the present case, the decision rejecting the complaint lacks independent content since it merely confirms the non-admission decision, which was replaced by the selection board’s decision communicated to the applicant by letter of 4 April 2011 without a review of the applicant’s situation in the light of new arguments or facts, so there is no need to give a separate ruling on the claim for its annulment.

€ 60.6 million charged to Spain for non-respect of payment deadlines in the nuts payment scheme; € 53.7 million charged to United Kingdom for non-respect of payment deadlines; € 48.5 million charged to Italy for non-respect of payment deadlines; € 35.8 million charged to Greece because the LPIS (Land parcel identification system) implemented to manage the direct payments schemes was found to be not fully operational to the standard required and on-the-spot checks were still carried out too late to be fully effective; € 26.7 million charged to the Netherlands because of the insufficient number of substitution controls in the export r ...[+++]efund scheme; € 17 million charged to Spain for non-respect of payment deadlines; € 8.7 million charged to France concerning the over thirty months slaughter scheme – technical and accounting controls were found to be deficient; € 7.5 million charged to France for weaknesses in the control system for subsidised-interest-loans and in secondary controls concerning Rural Development Programmes expenditure;

Moreover, the Appellate Body considered that the panel erred in not addressing the claims under the WTO Subsidies Agreement, but the Appellate Body was not in a position to rule on these issues itself.