Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/2828

(Case C-657/23,

Ministerstvo zemědělství)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common agricultural policy (CAP) - Financing, management and monitoring of the CAP - Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 - Financing by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) - Article 54 - Protection of the financial interests of the European Union - Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 - Article 3 - Recovery of amounts wrongly paid of a grant - Limitation period - Indicative time limit)

(C/2025/2828)

Language of the case: Czech

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: M. K.

Defendant: Ministerstvo zemědělství

Operative part of the judgment

Article 54(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008, read in conjunction with the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities financial interests,

must be interpreted as not precluding the initiation of the recovery procedure for the amounts wrongly paid of a European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) grant from its beneficiary after the expiry of the time limit of 18 months after the approval and, where applicable, reception, by the paying agency or body responsible for the recovery, of a control report or similar document, stating that an irregularity has taken place.

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JO C C/2024/937.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2828/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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