CELEX: 62008CJ0560
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 85/337/EEC
Assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment
Directive 92/43/EEC
Conservation of natural habitats
Projects for the widening and/or upgrading of the M-501 road in Spain
ZEP ES 0000056 'Encinares del río Alberche y río Cofio' ZEP ES0000056
Proposed SCI ES310005 'Cuenca del río Guadarrama' and proposed SCI ES3110007 'Cuenca de los ríos Alberche y Cofio'

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Articles 2(1), 3, 4(1) or 2, 5, 6(2), 8 and 9 of Council
Directive 85/337/EEC  of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment
(OJ 1985 L 175, p. 40) and Article 6(3) and (4), read in conjunction with Articles 7 and 12(1)(b) and (d) of Council Directive
92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ 1992 L 206, p. 7), as interpreted
by the judgments of the Court of Justice of 13 January 2005 in Case C‑117/03
Società Italiana Dragaggi and Others
and of 14 September 2006 in Case C-244/05
Bund Naturschutz in Bayern and Others
– Projects for the widening and/or upgrading of the M-501 road – ZEP ES0000056 ‘Encinares del río Alberche y río Cofio’ –
Proposed SCI ES310005 ‘Cuenca del río Guadarrama’ and proposed SCI ES3110007 ‘Cuenca de los ríos Alberche y Cofio’.
Operative part

The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to fulfil the requirements laid down:
–        by Articles 2(1), 3, 4(1) or (2), as the case may be, and 5 of Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment
of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Directive 2003/35/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003, in relation to separate projects for widening and/or upgrading sections 1, 2
and 4 of the M-501 road;
–        by Articles 6(2) and 8 of Directive 85/337, as amended by Directive 2003/35, as regards separate projects for widening and/or
upgrading of sections 2 and 4 of that road;
–        by Article 9 of Directive 85/337, as amended by Directive 2003/35, in relation to separate projects for widening and/or upgrading
sections 1, 2 and 4 of that road;
–        by Article 6(3) and (4) of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild
fauna and flora, read in conjunction with Article 7 of that directive, in relation to separate projects for widening and/or
upgrading sections 1, 2 and 4 of the M-501 road, as regards special protection area ‘Encinares del río Alberche y río Cofio’;
and
–        by Article 12(1)(b) and (d) of that directive, in relation to separate projects for widening and/or upgrading section 1 of
the M-501 road, as regards proposed site of Community importance ES3110005 ‘Cuenca del río Guadarrama’, and sections 2 and
4 of that road, as regards proposed site of Community importance ES3110007 ‘Cuencas de los ríos Alberche y Cofio’,
2.
the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under those provisions.
3.
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
4.
Orders the Republic of Poland to bear its own costs.