CELEX: C2005/330/09
Language: en
Date: 2005-12-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of  27 October 2005  in Case C-166/04: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 79/409/EEC — Protection of wild birds and their habitats — Special protection areas — Messolongi Lagoon)

24.12.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 330/5
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 27 October 2005
   in Case C-166/04: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 79/409/EEC - Protection of wild birds and their habitats - Special protection areas - Messolongi Lagoon)
   (2005/C 330/09)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-166/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Patakia and M. van Beek) v Hellenic Republic (Agent: E. Skandalou) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 2 April 2004 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, acting for the President of the Fifth Chamber, P. Kūris (Rapporteur) and J. Klučka, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 27 October 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take all the measures necessary for establishing and implementing a cohesive, specific and comprehensive legal regime capable of ensuring sustainable management and effective protection of the special protection area of the Messalongi Lagoon, having regard to the conservation objectives laid down by Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(1) and (2) of that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 156 of 12.06.2004