62022CJ0656_SUM
Case C‑656/22
Askos Properties EOOD
v
Zamestnik izpalnitelen direktor na Darzhaven fond ‘Zemedelie’
(Request for a preliminary rulingfrom the Varhoven administrativen sad)
Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 18 January 2024
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Agriculture – Common agricultural policy (CAP) – European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) – Rural development support measures – Regulation (EC) No 1974/2006 – Lease or letting agreement – Lease agreement concluded between a municipal authority and an aid beneficiary – Commitments over five years – Termination of the lease agreement further to a legislative amendment – Obligation to reimburse the aid received in part or in full – Not possible to adapt those commitments to a new situation for the holding – Definition of ‘force majeure’ and ‘exceptional circumstances’ – Definition of ‘expropriation of the holding’)
Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – EAFRD financing – Support for rural development – Agri-environment payments – Beneficiary unable to continue to honour an agri-environment commitment – Force majeure – Meaning – Termination, by a municipal authority, of the lease or letting agreement further to an amendment to national legislation introducing new requirements governing the maintenance of the agreement – Included – Conditions
(Commission Regulation No 1974/2006, Art. 47(1))
(see paragraphs 47-49, 62, operative part 1)
Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – EAFRD financing – Support for rural development – Agri-environment payments – Beneficiary unable to continue to honour an agri-environment commitment – Expropriation – Meaning – Termination, by a municipal authority, of the lease or letting agreement further to an amendment to national legislation introducing new requirements governing the maintenance of the agreement – Included – Conditions
(Commission Regulation No 1974/2006, Art. 47(1))
(see paragraphs 56, 58-60, 62, operative part 1)
Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – EAFRD financing – Support for rural development – Agri-environment payments – Beneficiary unable to continue to honour an agri-environment commitment – Reparcelling or land-consolidation measures – Meaning – Termination, by a municipal authority, of the lease or letting agreement further to an amendment to national legislation introducing new requirements governing the maintenance of the agreement – Not included
(Commission Regulation No 1974/2006, Art. 45(4))
(see paragraphs 65-68, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.