EuGH · C-259/08

Subject of the case Operative part Subject of the case Re: Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to transpose Article 3(1) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1) – Defective transposition of Articles 3(2), 4(1), 5 and Article 8(1) of that directive. Operative part Operative part The Court: 1. Declares that, by failing to take all the measures necessary to transpose fully and/or correctly the obligations under Articles 3(1) and (2), 4(1), 5 and 8(1) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under those provisions; 2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.