CELEX: 62009CA0522
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-522/09: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 April 2011 — European Commission v Romania (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 79/409/EEC — Conservation of wild birds — Special protection areas — Areas designated insufficient in number and size — Irregularity of the pre-litigation procedure — Inadmissibility of the action)

18.6.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 April 2011 — European Commission v Romania
   (Case C-522/09) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 79/409/EEC - Conservation of wild birds - Special protection areas - Areas designated insufficient in number and size - Irregularity of the pre-litigation procedure - Inadmissibility of the action)
   2011/C 179/06
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: D. Recchia and L. Bouyon, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Romania (represented by: A. Popescu, L.-E. Batagoi, M.-L. Colonescu, A.-R. Arșinel and J.S. Smaranda)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 4(1) and (2) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1) — Classification as special protection areas of areas insufficient in number and size, failing in part to have regard to the sites identified in the IBA Inventory — Alteration without scientific basis
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 51, 27.2.2010.