State aid - Compensatory levy - Method of financing aid - Community aid scheme for cotton - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Acts which may be challenged - Commission's refusal to continue infringement proceedings - Principle of independent legal remedies.

«(State aid – Compensatory levy – Method of financing aid – Community aid scheme for cotton – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Acts which may be challenged – Commission's refusal to continue infringement proceedings – Principle of independent legal remedies)» Summary of the Judgment Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Commission's refusal to continue infringement proceedings – Not included(Art. 230 EC) JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition)16 October 2003 (1) ((State aid – Compensatory levy – Method of financing aid – Community aid scheme for cotton – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Acts which may be challenged – Commission's refusal to continue infringement proceedings – Principle of independent legal remedies)) applicant, v defendant, intervener, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition), having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 27 February 2003, gives the following On those grounds, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition) García-Valdecasas Lindh Cooke Mengozzi Legal H. Jung P. Lindh Registrar President 1 – Language of the case: English.