ECLI:EU:T:2003:232

«(Action for annulment – Eurathlon Programme – Community financial assistance – Partial repayment – Obligation to state reasons – Method of calculation – Limitation period – Ineligible expenditure)» Summary of the Judgment 1.. Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope – Commission decision ordering partial repayment of financial assistance – Reference to an audit report sent to the recipient – Reference to a document annexed – Whether permissible (Art. 253 EC) 2.. Budget of the European Communities – Community financial assistance – Eurathalon Programme – Rules governing the grant of assistance – Conditions set out in the decision granting assistance – Terms of the application for assistance – Declaration by the recipient – Included 3.. Community law – Principles – Legal certainty – Limitation periods – Fixing of duration and detailed rules for application – Powers of the Community legislature – Application by analogy of legislative provisions unconnected with the case in point – Not permissible 4.. Community law – Principles – Action within a reasonable time – Administrative procedure – Criteria of assessment JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Fourth Chamber)17 September 2003 (1) ((Action for annulment – Eurathlon Programme – Community financial assistance – Partial repayment – Obligation to state reasons – Method of calculation – Limitation period – Ineligible expenditure)) applicant, v defendant, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (Fourth Chamber), having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 9 January 2003 gives the following On those grounds, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Fourth Chamber), Tiili Mengozzi Vilaras H. Jung V. Tiili Registrar President 1 – Language of the case: German.