CELEX: 62019CA0365
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-365/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 10 March 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Schwerin — Germany) — FD v Staatliches Amt für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt Mittleres Mecklenburg (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common agricultural policy — Direct payments — Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 — Article 24 — Young farmer having received an initial allocation of payment entitlements — Article 30(6) — Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 — Article 28(2) — Further allocation of payment entitlements from the national reserve)

10.5.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/4
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 10 March 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Schwerin — Germany) — FD v Staatliches Amt für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt Mittleres Mecklenburg
      (Case C-365/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common agricultural policy - Direct payments - Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 - Article 24 - Young farmer having received an initial allocation of payment entitlements - Article 30(6) - Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 - Article 28(2) - Further allocation of payment entitlements from the national reserve)
      (2021/C 182/04)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgericht Schwerin
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: FD
      
         Defendant: Staatliches Amt für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt Mittleres Mecklenburg
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 30(6) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, read in conjunction with Article 28(2) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 of 11 March 2014 supplementing Regulation No 1307/2013 and amending Annex X to that regulation, must be interpreted as meaning that a young farmer, within the meaning of Article 30(11)(a) of Regulation No 1307/2013, read in conjunction with Article 50(2) of that regulation, who has already received, under Article 24 of that regulation, an initial allocation of payment entitlements in respect of the eligible hectares which he or she has declared at the time of his or her application is entitled to receive, subsequently, a further allocation of payment entitlements from the national reserve equal to the number of additional eligible hectares that he or she now holds and for which he or she has not received any payment entitlement. That right is subject to the existence of sufficient available funds in the national or regional reserves. If that is not the case, the allocation must be made in such a way as to ensure the equal treatment of farmers eligible for entitlements under Article 30(6) of Regulation No 1307/2013 and to avoid distortions of the market and of competition.
      
         (1)  OJ C 288, 26.8.2019.