CELEX: 62017CA0097
Language: en
Date: 2018-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-97/17: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2018 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Protection of nature — Directive 2009/147/EC — Conservation of wild birds — Special Protection Area (SPA) — Classification as SPAs of the most suitable territories in number and size for the conservation of the bird species listed in Annex I to Directive 2009/147 — Important Bird Area (IBA) — IBA Rila — Partial classification of IBA Rila as an SPA)

201806010401917412018/C 211/09972017CJC21120180618EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL201804267711Case C-97/17: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2018 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Protection of nature — Directive 2009/147/EC — Conservation of wild birds — Special Protection Area (SPA) — Classification as SPAs of the most suitable territories in number and size for the conservation of the bird species listed in Annex I to Directive 2009/147 — Important Bird Area (IBA) — IBA Rila — Partial classification of IBA Rila as an SPA)
 ---documentbreak--- C2112018EN710120180426EN00097171Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2018 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria
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   ‛(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Protection of nature — Directive 2009/147/EC — Conservation of wild birds — Special Protection Area (SPA) — Classification as SPAs of the most suitable territories in number and size for the conservation of the bird species listed in Annex I to Directive 2009/147 — Important Bird Area (IBA) — IBA Rila — Partial classification of IBA Rila as an SPA)’2018/C 211/09Language of the case: Bulgarian
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: P. Mihaylova and C. Hermes, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Bulgaria (represented by: E. Petranova and L. Zaharieva, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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            Declares that, by failing to include the entire Important Bird Area covering the Rila Mountains as a Special Protection Area, the Republic of Bulgaria did not classify as SPAs the most suitable territories in number and size for the conservation of the species listed in Annex I to Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on wild birds, so that that Member State failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(1) of that directive.
         
      
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            Orders the Republic of Bulgaria to pay the costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 121, 18.4.2017.