Agenţia de Plăţi şi Intervenţie pentru Agricultură - Centrul Judeţean Tulcea v SC Piscicola Tulcea SA and Ira Invest SRL v Agenţia de Plăţi şi Intervenţie pentru Agricultură - Centrul Judeţean Tulcea (C-294/19, C-304/19)

Judgment of 29 Apr 2021law://eu/cjeu/2019/c-294-19/para_11@2026-11-12

11Article 4(1) of Regulation No 1307/2013 provides:‘For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:…(b) “holding” means all the units used for agricultural activities and managed by a farmer situated within the territory of the same Member State;(c) “agricultural activity” means:(i) production, rearing or growing of agricultural products, including harvesting, milking, breeding animals, and keeping animals for farming purposes,(ii) maintaining an agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation without preparatory action going beyond usual agricultural methods and machineries, based on criteria established by Member States on the basis of a framework established by the Commission, or(iii) carrying out a minimum activity, defined by Member States, on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation;(d) “agricultural products” means the products, with the exception of fishery products, listed in Annex I to the Treaties as well as cotton;(e) “agricultural area” means any area taken up by arable land, permanent grassland and permanent pasture, or permanent crops;(f) “arable land” means land cultivated for crop production or areas available for crop production but lying fallow, including areas set aside in accordance with Articles 22, 23 and 24 of [Council] Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 [of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations (OJ 1999 L 160, p. 80)], with Article 39 of [Council] Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 [of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ 2005 L 277, p. 1)] and with Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 [of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation No 1698/2005 (OJ 2013 L 347, p. 487)], irrespective of whether or not that land is under greenhouses or under fixed or mobile cover …’