Press Release: Environment: Commission issues final warning to Romania over nature protection shortcomings, closes case against Finland

The European Commission took legal action against Romania for infringing biodiversity legislation. Despite some progress, Romania was still failing to designate sufficient protected areas for migratory and vulnerable wild birds, and is therefore violating the EU's Directive on the conservation of wild birds. A separate nature protection case against Finland has now been closed, as the country has made good its failure to provide sufficient protected areas for species that include the threatened Steller's eider duck.