Società Italiana Dragaggi SpA v. Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti Regione Autonoma del Friuli Venezia Giulia Pays/Territoire Union européenne Type de cour Cour internationale Date Jan 13, 2005 Source UNEP, InforMEA Nom du tribunal European Court of Justice Siège de la cour Luxembourg Juge Timmermans, C.W.A.Gulmann (Rapporteur), C.Puissochet, J.-P.Colneric, N.Kokott,, J.Cunha Rodrigues, J.N. Numéro de référence C-117/03 Langue Italien Sujet Forêts, Terre et sols, Environnement gén. Mot clé Normes sur l'émission Préservation de l'écosystème Sécurité environnementale Flore sauvage Forêt récréative Faune sauvage Normes de qualité de l'eau Normes environnementales Normes Mesures de protection des forêts Normes acoustiques Normes relatives aux rejets d'effluents Gestion forestière/conservation des forêts Foresterie communautaire Aire protégée Service forestier/agents forestiers Eau à usage récréatif Résumé The Habitat directive's protection mechanisms - such as obligatory impact assessments ex art. 6 - do not apply to sites only nominated for inclusion in the Natura 2000 network, but not yet formally endorsed as such. At the same time, the ECJ stresses that if sites are eligible for identification as sites of Community importance and are included in the national lists transmitted to the Commission and, in particular, these sites are hosting priority natural habitat types or priority species, the Member States are, by virtue of the directive, required to take protective measures that are appropriate, from the point of view of the Directives conservation objective, for the purpose of safeguarding the relevant ecological interest which those sites have at the national level. The ECJ fails to identify a concrete legal basis from the Habitat directive from which this legal obligation stems. Also, the link that is made between on the one hand the directive's conservation objective - which is primary of a European nature - and on the other hand the national ecological interest in safeguarding a site not yet formally endorsed as a part of Natura 2000 does not seem to give the national judge much guidance. Texte intégral liste.jsf