Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:1997:324
Date: 1997-06-26
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Germany

Summary of the Judgmen t 
Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Support system for producers of certain arable 
crops — Establishment of production regions by the Member States — Obligation to set out the 
criteria used in the national implementing provisions — None — Production region correspond­
ing to a regional base area — Whether permissible 
(Council Regulton No 1765/92, Arts 2(2), second subpara., and 3(1), first subpara.) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-356/95 
The first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of 
Regulation N o 1765/92 establishing a sup­
port system for producers of certain arable 
crops does not require the Member States, 
when drawing up the regionalization plan 
referred to in that provision, to indicate the 
criteria used in the provisions implementing 
that regulation in establishing production 
regions. 
That provision must be interpreted as mean­
ing that a Member State which, under the 
third sentence of the second subparagraph of 
Article 2(2) of that regulation, has not desig­
nated its whole territory as a regional base 
area but merely different parts of it, is 
entitled to establish the whole territory of a 
specific regional base area as a production 
region, and that the specific characteristics 
that influence yields do not require regional 
base areas to be further subdivided into dif­
ferent production regions. 
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