CELEX: C2006/036/35
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of  17 November 2005  in Case C-131/05: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directives 79/409/EEC and 92/43/EEC)

11.2.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 36/18
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 17 November 2005
   in Case C-131/05: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directives 79/409/EEC and 92/43/EEC)
   (2006/C 36/35)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-131/05, action for failure to fulfil obligations brought on 21 March 2005 pursuant to Article 226 EC, Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. van Beek, assisted by F. Louis and A. Capobianco, lawyers) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: S. Nwaokolo) — the Court (Fifth Chamber Chamber), composed of R. Schintgen, acting for the President of the Fifth Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta and J. Klučka (Rapporteur), Judges; J. Kokott, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 17 November 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               By not adopting, within the prescribed period, all the measures necessary to comply with Article 6(1) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds and with Article 12(2) and Article 13(1), both read in conjunction with Article 2(1), of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under these Directives.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 132 of 28.5.2005.