Conservation of wild birds. Codification
2009/0043(COD)
PURPOSE: to codify Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (codification).
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds.
CONTENT: the purpose of this Directive is to undertake a codification of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds. The new Directive supersedes the various acts incorporated in it. It fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 15/02/2010.