Judgment_paragraph 78 · Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Others v College van Gedeputeerde Staten van Groningen and College van Gedeputeerde Staten van Zuid-Holland (C-166/09 and C-167/09) (C-165/09, C-166/09, C-167/09)

78First of all, it is to be remembered that it is settled case-law that, during the period prescribed for transposition of a directive, the Member States to which it is addressed must refrain from taking any measures liable seriously to compromise the attainment of the result prescribed by that directive (Case C-129/96 Inter-Environnement Wallonie [1997] ECR I-7411, paragraph 45; Case C-14/02 ATRAL [2003] ECR I-4431, paragraph 58; and Joined Cases C-261/07 and C-299/07 VTB-VAB and Galatea [2009] ECR I-2949, paragraph 38). Such an obligation to refrain owed by all the national authorities (see Case C-212/04 Adeneler and Others [2006] ECR I-6057, paragraph 122 and the case-law cited) must be understood as referring to the adoption of any measure, general or specific, liable to produce such a compromising effect.

Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Others v College van Gedeputeerde Staten van Groningen and College van Gedeputeerde Staten van Zuid-Holland (C-166/09 and C-167/09) (C-165/09, C-166/09, C-167/09)

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