63The Court finds on this point that, although any classification presupposes that the competent authorities are convinced, based on the best scientific knowledge available, that the site in question is among the most suitable areas for the protection of birds (see, to that effect, Case C-60/05 WWF Italia and Others [2006] ECR I-5083, paragraph 27), that does not however mean that the obligation to classify does not, as a rule, arise so long as those authorities have not completed their evaluation and check of the new scientific knowledge.
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