CELEX: 62009CJ0164
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Conservation of wild birds
Directive 79/409/EEC
Derogations from the system of protection for wild birds
Hunting

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Article 9 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979
on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1) – Derogations from the system of protection for wild birds – Veneto
Region.
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 that 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 pay the costs.