A Member State may not authorise a method of catching birds which results in by-catches where these may cause significant damage to the species concerned, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Wednesday 17 March (Case C-900/19).
Based on the initiative of two environmental protection associations seeking to ban hunting with birdlime, the French Council of State has asked the Court to clarify the extent to which a Member State may derogate from the ban on certain methods of...