Keywords

• Action for annulment
• Rights of defence
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
• Right to good administration
• Jurisdiction
• Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1289
• Imposition of a fine on a Member State in the context of economic and budgetary surveillance of the euro area
• Manipulation of statistical data relating to the deficit of the Member State concerned
• Regulation (EU) No 1173/2011
• Article 8(1) and (3)
• Delegated Decision 2012/678/EU
• Articles 2(1) and (3) and 14(2)
• Regulation (EC) No 479/2009
• Articles 3(1), 8(1), 11 and 11a
• Article 41(1)
• Articles 121, 126 and 136 TFEU
• Protocol No 12 on the excessive deficit procedure
• Existence of an infringement
• Misrepresentations
• Determination of the fine
• Principle that penal provisions may not have retroactive effect.