106Article 6 of the Habitats Directive imposes upon the Member States a series of specific obligations and procedures designed, as is clear from Article 2(2) of the directive, to maintain, or as the case may be restore, at a favourable conservation status natural habitats and species of wild fauna and flora of interest for the European Union, in order to attain the directive’s more general objective, which is to ensure a high level of environmental protection as regards the sites protected pursuant to it (see to that effect, inter alia, judgments of 11 April 2013, Sweetman and Others, C‑258/11, EU:C:2013:220, paragraph 36, and of 8 November 2016, Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK, C‑243/15, EU:C:2016:838, paragraph 43).
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