Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2014:2254
Date: 2014-10-02
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Ninth Chamber
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Belgium

Summary — Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) 2 October 2014 Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Integrated administration and control system for certain aid schemes — Aid linked to areas used for arable crops and set-aside of land — Intentional irregularities committed in the aid application — Penalty — Refusal of all of the aid (Commission Regulation No 2419/2001, Art. 33) The first paragraph of Article 33 of Regulation No 2419/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying the integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes established by Regulation No 3508/92, as amended by Regulation No 118/2004, must be interpreted as meaning that, in the event of intentional irregularity found in an area aid application, the farmer is to be refused all of the aid to which he would have been entitled under the aid scheme concerned by the application and for which the crop group concerned by that irregularity was eligible. (see para. 34, operative part)