CELEX: 62018CA0378
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-378/18: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen v Reinhard Westphal (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 — Protection of the European Union’s financial interests — Article 3(1) — Limitation period — Regulations (EEC) No 3887/92 and (EC) No 2419/2001 — Integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes — Recovery of undue payments — Application of the more lenient limitation rule)

9.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 413/17
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 October 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen v Reinhard Westphal
      (Case C-378/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 - Protection of the European Union’s financial interests - Article 3(1) - Limitation period - Regulations (EEC) No 3887/92 and (EC) No 2419/2001 - Integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes - Recovery of undue payments - Application of the more lenient limitation rule)
      (2019/C 413/19)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesverwaltungsgericht
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen
      
         Defendant: Reinhard Westphal
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 49(6) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2419/2001 of 11 December 2001 laying down detailed rules for applying the integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2004 of 23 January 2004, must be interpreted as meaning that the starting point of the limitation period which it lays down is determined in accordance with Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities’ financial interests and corresponds, in the case of continuous or repeated irregularities, to the day on which the irregularity ceases.
      
         (1)  OJ C 301, 27.8.2018.