CELEX: 62020CA0119
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-119/20: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Senāts) — Latvia) — Līga Šenfelde v Lauku atbalsta dienests (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common agricultural policy — European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) funding — National Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 — Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 — Article 19(1)(a) — Business start-up aid for young farmers — Aid for the development of small farms — Cumulation of aid — Possibility to refuse the cumulation)

6.12.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 490/10
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Senāts) — Latvia) — Līga Šenfelde v Lauku atbalsta dienests
      (Case C-119/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common agricultural policy - European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) funding - National Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 - Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 - Article 19(1)(a) - Business start-up aid for young farmers - Aid for the development of small farms - Cumulation of aid - Possibility to refuse the cumulation)
      (2021/C 490/07)
      Language of the case: Latvian
      
         Referring court
      
      Augstākā tiesa (Senāts)
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Līga Šenfelde
      
         Defendant: Lauku atbalsta dienests
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 must be interpreted as not precluding a farmer who has received business start-up aid for the development of small farms, provided for in point (a)(iii) of that provision, from cumulating that aid with business start-up aid for young farmers, provided for in point (a)(i) of that provision, in so far as the maximum amount of aid granted, as referred to in Article 19(6), is complied with;
               
            
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                  Article 19(1) of Regulation No 1305/2013 must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation under which the granting of business start-up aid for the development of small farms, provided for in point (a)(iii) of that provision, prevents the recipient from securing business start-up aid for young farmers, as provided for in point (a)(i) thereof.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 201, 15.6.2020.