40In that regard, it must be stated that the notion of ‘agricultural activity’, as defined in Article 2(c) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (OJ 2003 L 270, p. 1), which includes maintaining the land in good agricultural and environmental condition, cannot be used to interpret Regulation No 2078/92, given that that notion has been defined in the context of the decoupling of aid from agricultural production, that is to say in a context totally different from that in which the facts at issue in the main proceedings arise. In that context, agricultural aid was still granted in essence on the basis of production volume.
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