Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2001:417
Date: 2001-07-12
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Agricultural structures
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Sweden

Summary of the Judgment 
Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Integrated administration and control 
system for certain aid schemes — Identification and registration of the animals eligible 
for grant of aid — Register of animals kept by the farmer — Refusal of entitlement to a 
compensatory allowance — Conditions 
(Council Regulation No 3508/92, Art. 5; Commission Regulation No 3887/92, Arts 6(5) 
and 13; Council Directive 92/102) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-131/00 
Article 5 of Regulation No 3508/92 estab­
lishing an integrated administration and 
control system for certain Community aid 
schemes, read together with Directive 
92/102 on the identification and registra­
tion of animals and Articles 6(5) and 13 of 
Regulation No 3887/92 laying down 
detailed rules for applying that integrated 
system, as amended by Regulation 
No 1648/95, must be interpreted as mean­
ing that entitlement to a compensatory 
allowance must be refused, except in cases 
of force majeure, solely because of the 
absence of any entries in the register of 
animals kept by the farmer. 
(see para. 33 and operative part) 
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