25In its defence, Ireland recalls that the general objective pursued by Article 6 of the Habitats Directive is to impose upon the Member States a series of obligations aimed at maintaining, or restoring, 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 (judgments of 17 April 2018, Commission v Poland (Białowieża Forest), C‑441/17, EU:C:2018:255, paragraph 106, and of 7 November 2018, Holohan and Others, C‑461/17, EU:C:2018:883, paragraph 30 and the case-law cited).
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