CELEX: 62019CA0900
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-900/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 March 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association One Voice, Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux v Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2009/147/EC — Conservation of wild birds — Articles 5 and 8 — Prohibition of the use of any method of capture of birds — Article 9(1) — Authorisation to use, by way of derogation, a traditional method of capture of birds — Conditions — No other satisfactory solution — Preservation of that traditional method as the sole justification for the absence of an ‘other satisfactory solution’ — Selectivity of catches — National legislation authorising the capture of birds using limes)

10.5.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/17
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 March 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association One Voice, Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux v Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire
      (Case C-900/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Directive 2009/147/EC - Conservation of wild birds - Articles 5 and 8 - Prohibition of the use of any method of capture of birds - Article 9(1) - Authorisation to use, by way of derogation, a traditional method of capture of birds - Conditions - No other satisfactory solution - Preservation of that traditional method as the sole justification for the absence of an ‘other satisfactory solution’ - Selectivity of catches - National legislation authorising the capture of birds using limes)
      (2021/C 182/23)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Conseil d’État
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Association One Voice, Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux
      
         Defendant: Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire
      
         Interested party: Fédération nationale des Chasseurs
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
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                  Article 9(1) and (2) of Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds must be interpreted as meaning that the fact that a method of capture of birds is traditional is not, in itself, sufficient to establish that another satisfactory solution, within the meaning of that provision, cannot be substituted for that method;
               
            
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                  Article 9(1)(c) of Directive 2009/147 must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which authorises, by way of derogation from Article 8 of that directive, a method of capture leading to by-catch where that by-catch, even in small quantities and for a limited period, is likely to cause harm other than negligible harm to the non-target species captured.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 54, 17.2.2020.