33The Court has also held that the Member States' margin of discretion in choosing the most suitable territories for classification as SPAs concerns not the appropriateness of classifying as SPAs the territories which appear the most suitable according to ornithological criteria, but only the application of those criteria for identifying the most suitable territories for conservation of the species listed in Annex I (see, inter alia, Case C-3/96 Commission v Netherlands [1998] ECR I-3031, paragraph 61).
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