Judgment_paragraph 22 · Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (C-57/89)

22Those grounds must correspond to a general interest which is superior to the general interest represented by the ecological objective of the directive. In that context the interests referred to in Article 2 of the directive, namely economic and recreational requirements, do not enter into consideration. As the Court pointed out in its judgments in Case 247/85 (Commission v Belgium [1987] ECR 3029) and Case 262/85 (Commission v Italy [1987] ECR 3073), that provision does not constitute an autonomous derogation from the general system of protection established by the directive.

Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (C-57/89)

Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (C-57/89)

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