At a working group meeting on Monday 24 March, the Member States’ environment experts supported the adoption of the European Commission’s proposal to revise the protection status of the wolf in the Habitats Directive, as submitted by the European Commission on 7 March (see EUROPE B13595A19).
The 7 March proposal to revise the Habitats Directive is limited to the wolf, whose protection status would be changed from ‘strictly protected species’ to ‘protected species’, in line...