Birds Directive 79/409/EEC

28.1.2008

ORAL QUESTION H-0039/08
for Question Time at the part-session in February 2008
pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure
by Reinhard Rack
to the Commission

Under Article 7(1) of the European Union Birds Directive (Directive 79/409/EEC[1]) the species listed in Annex II of the directive may be hunted under national legislation throughout the European Community. Article 7(3) of the directive lays down, further, that the species referred to in Annex II/2 may be hunted only in the Member States in respect of which they are indicated. At present, corvidae may not be hunted in Austria. Partly because of this, numbers of corvidae have increased since Austria's accession to the European Union, particularly in eastern Austria, which has been to the detriment of both people and fauna.

 

Does the Commission see any possibility of retrospectively expanding the list contained in Annex II/2 of the Birds Directive and including corvidae in Austria in this list?

 

 

Tabled: 28.01.2008

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• [1]  OJ L 103, 25.4.1979, p. 1.