C-288/88

Case C-288/88 (Summary publication)

Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of G e r m a n y

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive on the conservation of wild birds)

Summary of the Judgment

1. Member States — Obligations — Implementation of directives — Failure not contested (EEC Treaty, Art. 169) 2. Environment — Conservation of wild birds — Directive 79/409 — Implementation by the Member States — Obligation to prohibit the means of hunting and methods of destruction banned by the directive — Derogations from the prohibitions laid down by the directive — Conditions for granting (Council Directive 79/409, Arts 5, 8 and 9, Annex IV)

OPINION OF THE ADVOCATE GENERAL