50As regards the classification of land consolidation and village renewal as ‘operations’, which, by virtue of the wording of Article 2(e) of Regulation No 1698/2005, requires them to be submitted to selection criteria, it must be pointed out that, according to settled case-law, the need for a uniform application of EU law and the principle of equality require that the terms of a provision of EU law which makes no express reference to the law of the Member States for the purposes of determining its meaning and scope must normally be given an independent and uniform interpretation throughout the European Union (see, by analogy, judgment of 25 October 2012, Ketelä, C‑592/11, EU:C:2012:673, paragraph 34 and the case-law cited).
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