CELEX: C2005/006/43
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 1 October 2004 in Case C-480/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d'arbitrage): Hugo Clemens, b.v.b.a. Valkaniersgilde against the Walloon region, Council of Ministers (Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure — Directive 79/409/EEC — Conservation of wild birds — Species born and reared in captivity)

8.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/22
            
         
      ORDER OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 1 October 2004
   in Case C-480/03 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d'arbitrage): Hugo Clemens, b.v.b.a. Valkaniersgilde against the Walloon region, Council of Ministers (1)
   
   (Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure - Directive 79/409/EEC - Conservation of wild birds - Species born and reared in captivity)
   (2005/C 6/43)
   Languages of the case: French and Dutch
   In Case C-480/03: Hugo Clemens, b.v.b.a. Valkaniersgilde v Walloon region, Council of Ministers – reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC by the Cour d'arbitrage (Belgium), by judgment of 29 October 2003, received at the Court on 18 November 2003 – the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of C. Gulmann, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur) and J. Makarczyk, Judges; Advocate General: J. Kokott, Registrar: R. Grass, has given an order on 1 October 2004 in which it:
   Declares that Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April on the conservation of wild birds is to be interpreted as not being applicable to species born and reared in captivity and, accordingly, Member States remain competent, as Community law now stands, to regulate the matter, subject to Articles 28 to 30 EC.
   
      (1)  OJ C 35 of 7.2.2004.