The Council of State put an end Monday afternoon to years of battle between hunters and environmentalists over the slime hunt.
The highest French administrative court has annulled the exemptions granted by the state for this controversial hunt.
The glue hunt was finally ruled illegal Monday by the highest French administrative court, putting an end to years of battle between supporters and opponents of this controversial method.
After having questioned the European justice, which had estimated in March that this trapping technique causes an "irremediable" damage to all the captured birds, the Council of State definitively canceled the exemptions granted by the State for this hunt, judged " contrary to European law ".
"Damage other than negligible"
"A Member State cannot authorize a method of catching birds resulting in by-catches when they are likely to cause the species concerned other than negligible damage", the Court of Justice of the Union said in March. European Union in a press release. This judgment hailed by the League for the Protection of Birds as "a great victory".