Court of Justice 7 November 1996, C-10/96 (Ligue royale belge pour la protection des oiseaux ASBL and Société d'études ornithologiques AVES ASBL v Région Wallonne, intervener: Fédération royale ornithologique belge ASBL.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1 The present request for a preliminary ruling concerns the conditions under which a Member State may benefit from a derogation from the prohibition on the capture of birds in the wild, and in particular whether such a derogation would be justified either where the immediate implementation of the prohibition would inconvenience some