Subsidies granted to economic operators and sanctions within the scope of the CAP – Different treatment in terms of the EU regulation and the implementation by Member States?
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2021
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The aim of the article is to examine the decisions made by the European Court of Justice (CJEU)
regarding the irregularities affecting the subsidies granted to economic operators under the
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) through the detailed examination of the National Farmers’,
the Hofmeister and the Belgisch Interventie cases. The main finding of the study is that the
economic operators have a fine chance of success in relying on the general principles of EU
law in relation to atypical regulations if they believe that the sanctions applied against them do
not comply with the requirements implied in the general principles.