PURPOSE: to undertake a codification of Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds.
PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds (codified version).
CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds. The new Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. This proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.