Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2001:497
Date: 2001-09-27
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Agricultural structures
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Germany

SUMMARY — CASE C-63/00
Summary of the Judgment
Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Integrated administration and control
system for certain aid schemes — Livestock aid — Discrepancy between the number of
animals declared and the number of animals found during checks — Reduction of the
amount of aid — Conditions
(Commission Regulation No 3887/92, Art. 10(2), first subpara.)
On a proper construction of the first and
second sentences of the first subparagraph
of Article 10(2) of Regulation No 3887/92,
the unit amount of the aid must be reduced
even where the discrepancy between the
number of animals declared and the
number of animals found during checks is
not attributable to incorrect information
given by the applicant but to the fact that
the necessary conditions for the grant of the
premiums are not satisfied in regard to
certain animals.
(see para 42, operative part)
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