Brussels, 05/06/2012 (Agence Europe) - The exclusion of a farmer from benefiting from agricultural aid on the ground of a false declaration of the area of his farm, as provided for in EU law, does not constitute a criminal penalty and does not preclude the imposition of a criminal penalty for the same act.
That is the substance of the ruling handed down in by the Court of Justice on Tuesday 5 June (case C-489/10) in response to the Polish Supreme Court which is hearing the case of a farmer...