Court of Justice 3 February 2005, C-441/03 (Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Introduction and forms of order sought 1. In these Treaty infringement proceedings the Commission accuses the Netherlands of failing to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty by not implementing various provisions contained in Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (2) (hereinafter ‘the