CELEX: 62008CO0573
Language: en
Date: 2009-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Order of the President of the Court of 10 December 2009. # European Commission v Italian Republic. # Application for interim measures - Interim measures - Conservation of wild birds - Directive 79/409/EEC - Derogations from the system of protection. # Case C-573/08 R.

Order of the President of the Court of 10 December 2009 – Commission v Italy
      (Case C-573/08 R)
      Application for interim measures – Interim measures – Conservation of wild birds – Directive 79/409/EEC – Derogations from the system of protection
      1.                     Application for interim measures – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Prima facie case – Urgency – Serious and irreparable
            damage – Cumulative nature – Weighing up of all the interests involved (Art. 279 TFEU) (see paras 11-12)
      2.                     Environment – Conservation of wild birds – Directive 79/409 – Implementation by Member States – Derogations from the general
            system of protection – Conditions for granting (Council Directive 79/409, Art. 9(1) and (2)) (see paras 15-16, 23-24)
      3.                     Application for interim measures – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency – Serious and irreparable damage –
            Burden of proof placed on the applicant (Art. 279 TFEU) (see paras 17-18, 25-26)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Arts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 18 of Council Directive
                  79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1) – Incorrect transposition – Derogations
                  – Requirements.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Orders the Italian Republic to suspend the application of Article 4(1) of the Law of the Regione di Lombardia No 24 of 30
                     July 2008 regulating the derogation system provided for by Article 9 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of
                     wild birds, pursuant to Law No 221 of 3 October 2002 (Disciplina del regime di deroga previsto dall’articolo 9 della direttiva
                     79/409/CEE del Consiglio, del 2 aprile 1979, concernente la conservazione degli uccelli selvatici, in attuazione della legge
                     3 ottobre 2002, n. 221), as amended for the hunting season 2009/2010 by Law No 21 of the Regione di Lombardia of 16 September
                     2009;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Reserves the costs.