CELEX: C2001/118/01
Language: en
Date: 2001-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 December 2000 in Case C-38/99: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 79/409/EEC — Conservation of wild birds — Hunting periods)

21.4.2001                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                             C 118/1
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                                                      COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                           transposition measures relating to the whole of its territory and
                                                                                  by failing correctly to implement the aforesaid provision, the
                           (Sixth Chamber)                                        French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that
                                                                                  directive;
                         of 7 December 2000                                  2.   Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
in Case C-38/99: Commission of the European Communi-
                      ties v French Republic (1)                             (1) OJ C 136 of 15.5.1999.
(Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
Directive 79/409/EEC — Conservation of wild birds —
                           Hunting periods)
                            (2001/C 118/01)
                                                                                             JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                      (Language of the case: French)
                                                                                                      (Third Chamber)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published                             of 7 December 2000
                     in the European Court Reports)
                                                                             in Case C-69/99: Commission of the European Communi-
In Case C-38/99: Commission of the European Communities                      ties v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
(Agents: P. Stancanelli and O. Couvert-Castéra) v French                                                  Ireland (1)
Republic (Agents: K. Rispal-Bellanger and D. Colas) — appli-
cation for a declaration that, by failing correctly to transpose
Article 7 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on                 (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103 p. 1), by                      Directive 91/676/EEC — Protection of waters against pol-
omitting to communicate all the transposition measures                       lution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources —
relating to the whole of its territory and by failing correctly to           Identification of waters affected by pollution — Specifying
implement the aforesaid provision, the French Republic has                                        of surface freshwaters)
failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court
(Sixth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann (Rapporteur),                                                 (2001/C 118/02)
President of the Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-P. Puissochet,
R. Schintgen and F. Macken, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer,
Advocate General; D. Louterman-Hubeau, Head of Division,
for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 7 December 2000,                                    (Language of the case: English)
in which it:
                                                                             In Case C-69/99: Commission of the European Communities
1.    Declares that, by failing correctly to transpose Article 7(4) of       (Agent: R. Wainwright) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and
      Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the                    Northern Ireland (Agents: M. Ewing and D. Wyatt, QC) —
      conservation of wild birds, by omitting to communicate all the         application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt all the