Judgment_paragraph 27 · Confédération paysanne v Ministre de l’Alimentation, de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche (C-298/12)

27That interpretation is supported by the preparatory documents to Regulation No 1782/2003, and, in particular, by the document entitled 'Single payment scheme, special cases, national reserve’ distributed on 28 May 2003 during the Working Party on Horizontal Agricultural Questions [(DS 200/03 REV 1), and reproduced at Annex IV to Council document No 9971/03 of 3 June 2003] under which, in accordance with Case 120/86 Mulder [1988] ECR 2321, paragraph 24, farmers who were subject to agri-environmental commitments were allowed to benefit from the exceptional circumstances scheme.