Commission v Greece C-103/00: ECJ 30 Jan 2002

ECJ Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Directive 92/43/EEC – Conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora – Protection of species.
Advocate General Leger explained article 1(I) of the Directive: ‘conservation status is regarded as ‘favourable’ when population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long-term basis as a viable component of its natural habitats, that the natural range of the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future, and that there is, and probably will continue to be a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long-term basis.
the combined effect of those provisions is apparently that a system of strict protection of an animal species of Community interest means a set of co-ordinated measures, of a preventative nature, which ensure in the long term that the population of the species in question is maintained or restored in the type of natural habitat to which it belongs. This assumes that there is a sufficiently large natural habitat for the species in question.’

Judges:

Advocate General Leger

Citations:

[2002] ECR I-1147, [2002] EUECJ C-103/00

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Directive 92/43/EEC 1(I)

Jurisdiction:

European

Cited by:

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Updated: 05 June 2022; Ref: scu.167572