207As to the argument that Regulation 17 of the Habitat Regulations empowers the competent minister to seek injunctive relief to stop operations or activities that appear on assessment to be damaging to a European site, including an SPA, and that Regulation 18 of those regulations provides for similar ministerial powers in the event that an operation or activity damaging to an SPA is being carried out in an area outside the SPA, the Court finds that, as rightly pointed out by the Commission and the Advocate General in point 127 of her Opinion, those provisions do not make it possible to avoid the deterioration of natural habitats and the habitats of species as well as significant disturbance of the species for which the areas concerned have been designated.