CELEX: 62010CA0564
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-564/10: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 29 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung v Pfeifer & Langen KG (Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 — Protection of the European Union’s financial interests — Articles 3 and 4 — Administrative measures — Recovery of wrongly obtained advantages — Default and compensatory interest due under national law — Application of the limitation rules in Regulation No 2988/95 to the recovery of default interest — Start of the limitation period — Concept of suspension — Concept of interruption)

26.5.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 151/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 29 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung v Pfeifer & Langen KG
   (Case C-564/10) (1)
   
   (Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 - Protection of the European Union’s financial interests - Articles 3 and 4 - Administrative measures - Recovery of wrongly obtained advantages - Default and compensatory interest due under national law - Application of the limitation rules in Regulation No 2988/95 to the recovery of default interest - Start of the limitation period - Concept of suspension - Concept of interruption)
   2012/C 151/12
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesverwaltungsgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung
   
      Defendant: Pfeifer & Langen KG
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Interpretation of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities financial interests (OJ 1995 L 312, p. 1) — Recovery of aid wrongly paid — Applicability of Article 3 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 to the limitation period in respect of interest payable under national law in addition to the reimbursement of the sums wrongly paid
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities financial interests must be interpreted as meaning that the limitation period that it lays down for the principal claim, relating to the recovery of an advantage wrongly received from the European Union budget, does not apply to the recovery of interest arising from that claim, where that interest is not due under European Union law, but exclusively under an obligation of national law.
   
      (1)  OJ C 72, 5.3.2011.