Keywords
Summary

Keywords

Agriculture - Common agricultural policy - Support system for producers of certain arable crops - Establishment of production regions by the Member States - Obligation to set out the criteria used in the national implementing provisions - None - Production region corresponding to a regional base area - Whether permissible

(Council Regulation No 1765/92, Arts 2(2), second subpara., and 3(1), first subpara.)

Summary

The first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation No 1765/92 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops does not require the Member States, when drawing up the regionalization plan referred to in that provision, to indicate the criteria used in the provisions implementing that regulation in establishing production regions.

That provision must be interpreted as meaning that a Member State which, under the third sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 2(2) of that regulation, has not designated its whole territory as a regional base area but merely different parts of it, is entitled to establish the whole territory of a specific regional base area as a production region, and that the specific characteristics that influence yields do not require regional base areas to be further subdivided into different production regions.