Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 16 July 2009.

The Queen, on the application of Mark Horvath v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Reference for a preliminary ruling: High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court) - United Kingdom.

Common agricultural policy - Direct support schemes - Regulation (EC) No 1782/ 2003 - Article 5 and Annex IV - Minimum requirements for good agricultural and environmental condition - Maintenance of rights of way - Implementation by a Member State - Transfer of powers to regional authorities of a Member State - Discrimination contrary to Community law.

Case C-428/07.


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
12/09/2009 Horvath
Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • General and final provisions
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Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2009:458		 16/07/2009 Horvath
Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • General and final provisions
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2009:458		 16/07/2009 Horvath
Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • General and final provisions
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
08/12/2007 Horvath
Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • General and final provisions
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Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2009:47		 03/02/2009 Horvath
Agriculture and Fisheries
  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • General and final provisions
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

2009 I-06355

Subject-matter

Interpretation of Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001, and Annex IV thereto (OJ 2003 L 270, p. 1) – Criteria for good agricultural and environmental condition defined in Article 5 of the regulation and Annex IV thereto – Possibility of including requirements relating to the maintenance of visible public rights of way - Member State's internal constitutional arrangements which provide that different devolved administrations are to have legislative competence in relation to different constituent parts of that Member State with the result that those different parts have different standards of good agricultural and environmental condition

Systematic classification scheme

1.
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-03 Agriculture
    B-03.07 Structural policy
      B-03.07.01 Structural reform of agriculture: joint action
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-03 Agriculture
    B-03.03 Common organization of the markets: principles and mechanisms
      B-03.03.03 Prohibition of discrimination
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-03 Agriculture
    B-03.07 Structural policy
      B-03.07.01 Structural reform of agriculture: joint action


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 14/09/2007

Date of the Opinion

  • 03/02/2009

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

16/07/2009


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 297 from 08.12.2007, p.22

Judgment: OJ C 220 from 12.09.2009, p.4

Name of the parties

Horvath

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Rigaux, Anne: Autonomie législative d'entités infraétatiques, Europe 2009 Octobre Comm. nº 351 p.10
  2. Bianchi, Roberta: Corte di Giustizia europea, Ambiente: mensile di diritto e pratica per l'impresa 2009 nº 10 p.949-950
  3. Barents, R.: Over wandelpaden en ruiterpaden: het arrest Horvath, Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht 2009 p.294-297
  4. Gadbin, Daniel ; Bianchi, Daniel ; Langlais, Alexandra: Chronique de jurisprudence communautaire - La gestion des politiques communautaires par les États membres - Les compétences des États membres pour la détermination des conditions d'accès aux aides communautaires, Revue de droit rural 2010 nº 387 p.30-33



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen's Bench Division - United Kingdom

Subject-matter

  • Agriculture and Fisheries
  • General and final provisions

Provisions of national law referred to

Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004, regulation 4(1) and Schedule 1, paras 26, 27, 28 and 29

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Lõhmus

Advocate General

Trstenjak

Language(s) of the Case

  • English

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • German