Court of Justice 10 December 1998, C-166/97 (Commission of the European Communities v French Republic.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1 In this infringement action, the Commission is seeking a declaration that the French Republic had, by 3 September 1995, failed to classify a sufficiently large Special Protection Area (hereinafter `SPA') in the Seine estuary for the purposes of the wild birds directive, (1) that the protection regime adopted for the SPA classified