69In the second place, in order to establish that there has been a failure to fulfil the obligations resulting from the first sentence of Article 4(4) of the Birds Directive, as the Advocate General observed in point 115 of her Opinion, it is necessary to refer, by analogy, to the case-law of the Court relating to the failure to fulfil obligations under Article 6(2) of the Habitats Directive, since the content of the latter provision is largely the same as that of the first sentence of Article 4(4) of the Birds Directive (see, to that effect, judgment in Commission v Ireland, C‑117/00, EU:C:2002:366, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited).
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