CELEX: 62006CJ0503
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 79/409/EEC
Conservation of wild birds
Derogations from the system of protection of wild birds
Region of Liguria

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Adoption and application by the Region of Liguria of legislation authorising
derogations from the system of protection for wild birds which fails to satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 9 of Council
Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 concerning the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1).
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by adopting and applying, for the region of Liguria, legislation authorising derogations from the system of
protection for wild birds which fails to satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 9 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of
2 April 1979 concerning the conservation of wild birds, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that
directive;
2.
Orders the Italian Republic to bear the costs, including those linked to the interlocutory proceedings.