Judgment_paragraph 32 · Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (C-84/04)

32Notwithstanding the existence of certain differences between the Guarantee and Guidance Sections of the EAGGF, the principles that derive from the Court's case-law on the provisions of the regulations governing the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF, which require aid to be paid in full, are, as the Advocate General has observed at points 67 to 70 of his Opinion, applicable to the present case since the specific features of both of these sections are of secondary importance when compared with their shared feature, namely the fact that they are funded by the Community budget, allowing them to grant financial assistance in the form of subsidies for actions in their respective spheres of competence. Such assistance, which has the same single financial source, is subject in each case to the same rules for payment, such as the rule which requires that the amount received by the beneficiary must be the same as the one granted to him.