CELEX: C2005/193/10
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 9 June 2005 in Case C-135/04: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Conservation of wild fauna — Wild birds — Hunting periods — Hunting of woodpigeon during return journey in the province of Guipúzcoa)

6.8.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 193/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 9 June 2005
   in Case C-135/04: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (1)
   
   (Conservation of wild fauna - Wild birds - Hunting periods - Hunting of woodpigeon during return journey in the province of Guipúzcoa)
   (2005/C 193/10)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   In Case C-135/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: G. Valero Jordana and M. van Beek) v Kingdom of Spain (Agents: N. Díaz Abad and M. Muñoz Perez) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 12 March 2004 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C. W. A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta, C. Gulmann (Rapporteur), R. Schintgen and G. Arestis, Judges; L. A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; M. Ferreira, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 9 June 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by allowing the practice of 'a contrapasa' hunting of woodpigeons in the province of Guipúzcoa, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7(4) 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 106 of 30.4.2004.