CELEX: 62007CA0078
Language: en
Date: 2008-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-78/07: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 March 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Giustizia Amministrativa per la Regione siciliana (Italy)) — Ispettorato Provinciale dell'Agricoltura di Enna, Assessorato all'agricoltura e foreste della Regione Sicilia, Regione Sicilia v Domenico Valvo (Agriculture — Regulations (EEC) No 2328/91 and (EC) No 950/97 — Articles 17 and 18 — Compensatory allowances for permanent natural handicaps — Farmers receiving length-of-service pensions — Right to compensatory allowances — Limits)

9.5.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 116/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 March 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Giustizia Amministrativa per la Regione siciliana (Italy)) — Ispettorato Provinciale dell'Agricoltura di Enna, Assessorato all'agricoltura e foreste della Regione Sicilia, Regione Sicilia v Domenico Valvo
   (Case C-78/07) (1)
   
   (Agriculture - Regulations (EEC) No 2328/91 and (EC) No 950/97 - Articles 17 and 18 - Compensatory allowances for permanent natural handicaps - Farmers receiving length-of-service pensions - Right to compensatory allowances - Limits)
   (2008/C 116/12)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Referring court
   Consiglio di Giustizia Amministrativa per la Regione siciliana
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicants: Ispettorato Provinciale dell'Agricoltura di Enna, Assessorato all'agricoltura e foreste della Regione Sicilia, Regione Sicilia
   
      Defendant: Domenico Valvo
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consiglio di Giustizia Amministrativa per la Regione siciliana — Interpretation of Council Regulation (EC) No 950/97 of 20 May 1997 on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures — National legislation refusing to grant the compensatory allowance for permanent natural handicaps to farmers in receipt of a length-of-service pension
   Operative part of the judgment
   Articles 17 and 18 of Council Regulation (EC) No 950/97 of 20 May 1997 on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures confer on Member States the right to grant a compensatory allowance to a farmer who fulfils the conditions laid down in those two articles. However, those articles do not preclude a Member State from refusing payment of such an allowance where that farmer is in receipt of a pension, in particular, a length-of-service pension.
   
      (1)  OJ C 117, 26.5.2007.