27.7.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 245/2

1.

Must Regulation No 1698/2005[/EC] (1), in particular Article 71(3) thereof, pursuant to which the rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be set at national level, subject to the special conditions laid down by that regulation for certain rural development measures, be interpreted as precluding the national legislation set out in Article 79(4) of [the Decree on measures implementing Axes 1, 3 and 4 of the Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Slovenia for the period 2007-2013, in the years 2010 to 2013 (‘the RDP Decree’)] and in point 3 of Section VI of the invitation to tender, pursuant to which only expenses incurred after the date of adoption of the decision on the right to obtain funding (until the end of the investment period or, at the latest, 30 June 2015) constitute eligible investment expenditure?

2.

If the answer to the first question is in the negative, must Regulation No 1698/2005, in particular Article 71(3) thereof, be interpreted as precluding the national legislation set out in Article 56(4) of the Zakon o kmetijstvu (Law on agriculture), in accordance with which any claim that does not meet the requirements of Article 79(4) of the RDP Decree on eligible investment expenditure incurred after the date of adoption of the decision [on the right to obtain funding] must be rejected in its entirety?