EU law on rural development support does not necessarily preclude national legislation laying down different conditions of access to start-up aid for young farmers, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday 8 July (Case C-830/19).
This judgment follows a request from the General Court of Namur (Belgium) in a dispute between a young farmer established in Belgium and the Walloon Region.
Having taken over a third of his parents’ farm, this farmer’s application for...