Judgment_paragraph 41 · SC Avicarvil Farms SRL v Ministerul Agriculturii şi Dezvoltării Rurale and Others (C-443/21)

41However, it is settled case-law that the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations cannot be relied upon against an unambiguous provision of EU law; nor can the conduct of a national authority responsible for applying EU law, which acts in breach of that law, give rise to a legitimate expectation on the part of a trader of beneficial treatment contrary to EU law (judgment of 7 August 2018, Ministru kabinets, C‑120/17, EU:C:2018:638, paragraph 52 and the case-law cited).