Poland will be taken to the EU Court of Justice for persistent breaches of the EU’s ‘Habitats’ Directive (Directive 92/43/EEC) and ‘Birds’ Directive (Directive 2009/147/EC), the European Commission announced on Thursday 3 December. The issue is Polish legislation on forest management.
The European Commission is critical of the Member State for having wrongly exempted forest management in 2016 from having to comply with the strict protection obligations of species as laid down by...