CELEX: C1996/180/01
Language: en
Date: 1996-06-22 00:00:00
Title: OPINION 2/94 OF THE COURT of 28 March 1996 (Accession by the Community to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms)

22 . 6 . 96           EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No C 180/ 1
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                                              COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                        COURT OF JUSTICE
            OPINION 2/94 OF THE COURT                                              JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                      of 28 March 1996                                                       ( Fifth Chamber )
(Accession by the Community to the Convention for the                                       of 7 March 1996
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms)                 in Case C-118/94 ( Reference for a preliminary ruling from
                          ( 96/C 180/01 )                            the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Veneto ):
                                                                     Associazione Italiana per il World Wildlife Fund and Others
                                                                                          v. Regione Veneto (')
The Court of Justice has received a request for an opinion,          (Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild
lodged at the Registry of the Court on 26 April 1 994 ( 1 ),         birds — Hunting — Conditions for exercise of the Member
from the Council of the European Union pursuant to                                     States ' power to derogate)
Article 228 ( 6 ) of the EC Treaty on the following                                            ( 96/C 180/02 )
question :
                                                                                     (Language of tbe case: Italian)
'Would the accession of the European Community to the
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and                    (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be
Fundamental Freedoms of 4 November 1950 be compatible                        published in the European Court Reports)
with the Treaty establishing the European Community ?'
                                                                     In Case C-118 /94 : reference to the Court under Article 177
The Court composed of G. C. Rodriguez Iglesias, President,           of the EC Treaty by the Tribunale Amministrativo
C. N. Kakouris, D. A. O. Edward, J. -P. Puissochet and G.            Regionale per il Veneto ( Regional Administrative Court for
Hirsch, Presidents of Chambers, G. F. Mancini, F. A.                 the Veneto Region, Italy ) for a preliminary ruling in the
Schockweiler ( Rapporteur ), J. C. Moitinho de Almeida , P. J.       proceedings pending before that court between
G. Kapteyn, C. Gulmann, J. L. Murray, P. Jann, H.                    Associazione Italiana per il World Wildlife Fund, Ente
Ragnemalm, L. Sevón and M. Wathelet, Judges, after                   Nazionale per le Protezione Animali , Lega per l'Ambiente —
hearing the views of First Advocate-General Tesauro and              Comitato Regionale, Lega Anti Vivisezione — Delegazione
Advocates-General Lenz, Jacobs, La Pergola, Cosmas,                  Regionale, Lega per l'Abolizione della Caccia, Federnatura
Léger, Elmer, Fennelly and Ruiz-Jarobo Colomer, gave the             Veneto , Italia Nostra — Sezione di Venezia and the Regione
following opinion :                                                  Veneto on the interpretation of Article 9 of Council
                                                                     Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation
                                                                     of wild birds ( OJ No L 103 , 1979 , p . 1 ), the Court ( Fifth
As Community law now stands, the Community has no                    Chamber ), composed of D. A. O. Edward , President of the
competence to accede to the European Convention for the              Chamber, J. -P. Puissochet, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida , C.
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.                 Gulmann ( Rapporteur ) and P. Jann, Judges; N. Fennelly,
                                                                     Advocate-General ; L. Hewlett, Administrator, for the
                                                                     Registrar, has given a judgment on 7 March 1 996 in which it
(') OJ No C 174 , 25 . 6 . 1994 .                                    ruled that :
                                                                     Article 9 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979
                                                                     on the conservation of wild birds is to be interpreted as