CELEX: 62008CJ0259
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 79/409/EEC
Conservation of wild birds
Preservation and maintenance of habitats
Classification of special protection areas
Prohibition of hunting and capture
Incorrect transposition

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to transpose Article 3(1) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April
1979 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1) – Defective transposition of  Articles 3(2), 4(1), 5 and Article
8(1) of that directive.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to take all the measures necessary to transpose fully and/or correctly the obligations under Articles
3(1) and (2), 4(1), 5 and 8(1) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds, the Hellenic
Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under those provisions;
2.
Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.