EuGH · C-508/09

Subject of the case Operative part Subject of the case Re: Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Article 9 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1) – Derogations – Region of Sardinia. Operative part Operative part The Court: 1. Declares that, the region of Sardinia having adopted, and applying, legislation relating to the authorisation of derogations from the rules for the protection of wild birds that does not satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 9 of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 9 of that directive; 2. Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.