Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 December 2014 — APIA — Centrul Judeţean Timiş

(Case C‑304/13) ( 1 )

‛Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 — Direct support schemes — Conditions for the granting of the complementary national direct payments — Condition not provided for by EU legislation — Condition relating to the absence of debt falling due to the State budget and/or local budget on the date of submission of the application for aid — Not permissible’

1. Questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Jurisdiction of the Court — Identification of relevant EU law — Reformulation of the questions (Art. 267 TFEU) (see paras 25, 26)

2. Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Integrated administration and control system for certain aid schemes — Complementary national aid — National legislation excluding from aid producers with debts falling due to the State budget and/or local budget on the date of submission of the application for aid — Condition imposed without the prior authorisation of the Commission — Not permissible (Council Regulations No 1782/2003, Art. 143c and No 73/2009, Art. 132) (see paras 36, 37 and operative part)

Operative part

Article 143c of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001, as amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, and Article 132 of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which excludes from the benefit of complementary national aid producers who, on the date of submission of the application for aid, have debts falling due to the State budget and/or local budget, where no condition relating to the absence of such debt has been subject to prior authorisation by the European Commission.

( 1 ) OJ C 52, 22.02.2014.

Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 December 2014 — APIA — Centrul Judeţean Timiş

(Case C‑304/13) ( 1 )

‛Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 — Direct support schemes — Conditions for the granting of the complementary national direct payments — Condition not provided for by EU legislation — Condition relating to the absence of debt falling due to the State budget and/or local budget on the date of submission of the application for aid — Not permissible’

1. Questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Jurisdiction of the Court — Identification of relevant EU law — Reformulation of the questions (Art. 267 TFEU) (see paras 25, 26)

2. Agriculture — Common agricultural policy — Integrated administration and control system for certain aid schemes — Complementary national aid — National legislation excluding from aid producers with debts falling due to the State budget and/or local budget on the date of submission of the application for aid — Condition imposed without the prior authorisation of the Commission — Not permissible (Council Regulations No 1782/2003, Art. 143c and No 73/2009, Art. 132) (see paras 36, 37 and operative part)

Operative part

Article 143c of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001, as amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, and Article 132 of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which excludes from the benefit of complementary national aid producers who, on the date of submission of the application for aid, have debts falling due to the State budget and/or local budget, where no condition relating to the absence of such debt has been subject to prior authorisation by the European Commission.

( 1 ) OJ C 52, 22.02.2014.