Case C-698/20: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — Gmina Wieliszew v Syndyk masy upadłości Spółdzielczego Banku Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa w Wołominie w upadłości likwidacyjnej (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Structural Funds — European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) — Cohesion Fund — Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 — Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 — European Union funding — European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) — Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 — Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 — Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 — Grant agreement — Funds paid to a beneficiary into an account in an insolvent bank — National legislation not excluding those funds from the insolvency estate of that bank)
Date: 2022-10-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Cohesion Fund, EAFRD, European Regional Development Fund, bank, bank deposit, eligibility criteria, liquidation, principle of additionality








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5.12.2022   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 463/4






Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — Gmina Wieliszew v Syndyk masy upadłości Spółdzielczego Banku Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa w Wołominie w upadłości likwidacyjnej
(Case C-698/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Structural Funds - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - Cohesion Fund - Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 - Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 - European Union funding - European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) - Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 - Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 - Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 - Grant agreement - Funds paid to a beneficiary into an account in an insolvent bank - National legislation not excluding those funds from the insolvency estate of that bank)
(2022/C 463/04)
Language of the case: Polish

Referring court

Sąd Najwyższy

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Gmina Wieliszew

Defendant: Syndyk masy upadłości Spółdzielczego Banku Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa w Wołominie w upadłości likwidacyjnej

intervener: Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich

Operative part of the judgment

Article 2(5) and Articles 3, 4, 57, 70 and 80 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11 July 2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999, as amended by Regulation (EU) No 423/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012, Articles 11, 54, 56 and 58 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008, and Article 2(i), Articles 3 and 4, and Article 72(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which, first, does not enable an entity that has received funds in the framework of programmes co-financed by the EU budget, where those funds have been paid into an account held at a bank which has subsequently been declared insolvent, to secure the exclusion of those funds from the insolvency estate of that bank, and, second, does not prescribe the exclusion of those funds from that insolvency estate.


(1)  OJ C 182, 10.5.2021.