CELEX: 62015CN0111
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-111/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Upravno sodišče Republike Slovenije (Slovenia) lodged on 4 March 2015 — Občina Gorje v Republic of Slovenia

27.7.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 245/2
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Upravno sodišče Republike Slovenije (Slovenia) lodged on 4 March 2015 — Občina Gorje v Republic of Slovenia
   (Case C-111/15)
   (2015/C 245/02)
   Language of the case: Slovenian
   
      Referring court
   
   Upravno sodišče Republike Slovenije
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Občina Gorje
   
      Defendant: Republic of Slovenia
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Must Regulation No 1698/2005[/EC] (1), in particular Article 71(3) thereof, pursuant to which the rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be set at national level, subject to the special conditions laid down by that regulation for certain rural development measures, be interpreted as precluding the national legislation set out in Article 79(4) of [the Decree on measures implementing Axes 1, 3 and 4 of the Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Slovenia for the period 2007-2013, in the years 2010 to 2013 (‘the RDP Decree’)] and in point 3 of Section VI of the invitation to tender, pursuant to which only expenses incurred after the date of adoption of the decision on the right to obtain funding (until the end of the investment period or, at the latest, 30 June 2015) constitute eligible investment expenditure?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to the first question is in the negative, must Regulation No 1698/2005, in particular Article 71(3) thereof, be interpreted as precluding the national legislation set out in Article 56(4) of the Zakon o kmetijstvu (Law on agriculture), in accordance with which any claim that does not meet the requirements of Article 79(4) of the RDP Decree on eligible investment expenditure incurred after the date of adoption of the decision [on the right to obtain funding] must be rejected in its entirety?
            
         
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), OJ 2005 L 277, p. 1.