55In those circumstances, it is evident, as the French Government submits, that the strip of land earmarked for construction of the motorway was mistakenly referred to as forming part of the Marais Poitevin intérieur SPA at the time when that SPA was notified to the Commission and that the declaration by the Minister for the Environment in his letter of 19 April 1994 to the Prefect of the Pays de Loire Region, to the effect that ‘the land acquired for the motorway... must... be regarded as being excluded from the SPA’, did not involve a reduction in the surface area of the SPA classified but simply the rectification of an error in the particulars forwarded to the Commission.
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