CELEX: C2005/045/11
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 9 December 2004 in Case C-79/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 79/409/EEC — Conservation of wild birds — Hunting)

19.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/6
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 9 December 2004
   in Case C-79/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 79/409/EEC - Conservation of wild birds - Hunting)
   (2005/C 45/11)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   In Case C-79/03: Action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 21 February 2003, between Commission of the European Communities (Agent: G. Valero Jordana) and Kingdom of Spain (Agent: N. Díaz Abad) – the Court (Second Chamber), composed of: C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann (Rapporteur), J. Makarczyk, P. Kūris and J. Klučka, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 9 December 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by allowing hunting using limed twigs in the Community of Valencia by means of the method known as ‘parany’, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 8(1) and 9(1) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 101 of 26.4.2003.