CELEX: 62009CJ0508
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

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 – Region of Sardinia.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, the region of Sardinia having adopted, and applying, legislation relating to the authorisation of derogations
from the rules for the protection of wild birds that does not satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 9 of Council Directive
79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under
Article 9 of that directive;
2.
Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.