CELEX: 62019CN0294
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-294/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Constanța (Romania) lodged on 10 April 2019 — Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură — Centrul Județean Tulcea v SC Piscicola Tulcea SA

26.8.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 288/13
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Constanța (Romania) lodged on 10 April 2019 — Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură — Centrul Județean Tulcea v SC Piscicola Tulcea SA
      (Case C-294/19)
      (2019/C 288/16)
      Language of the case: Romanian
      
         Referring court
      
      Curtea de Apel Constanța
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant/defendant at first instance: Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură — Centrul Județean Tulcea
      
         Respondent/applicant at first instance: SC Piscicola Tulcea SA
      
         Question referred
      
      Must Articles 2 and 34(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, (1) and Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1120/2009 of 29 October 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the single payment scheme provided for in Title III of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, (2) be interpreted as precluding national legislation which, in the conditions obtaining in the main proceedings, excludes a farmer from payment of the entitlements on the ground that the aquaculture facilities used as arable land do not constitute an ‘agricultural area’ for the purposes of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1120/2009 since they are not regarded as eligible land under Article 34(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009?
      
         (1)  OJ 2009 L 30, p. 16.
      
         (2)  OJ 2009 L 316, p. 1.