The European Commission announced this week that it has decided to pursue infringement procedures against seven Member States for their failure to implement in national law one or more of eight different Internal Market Directives.
The Commission has decided to refer the following Member States to the European Court of Justice over non-communication of national measures implementing certain Directives: the Czech Republic regarding Directives on recognition of dental and medical qualifications; Estonia regarding a Directive on postal services; Greece and Italy regarding the Accounting Modernisation Directive; Luxembourg and Sweden regarding a Directive on supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates; and Greece regarding a Directive on reorganisation and winding up of credit institutions.
In addition, the Commission has decided, under Article 228 of the EC Treaty, to send further “reasoned opinions” to France, requesting it to comply immediately with a previous judgement of the Court on its non-implementation of the 2001 Copyright Directive, and to Luxembourg, requesting it to comply immediately with a previous Court judgement requiring it to implement EU law on legal protection of biotechnological inventions.
If France and Luxembourg do not comply, the Commission can ultimately ask the Court to impose daily fines.
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy observed that:
“Member States' recent progress in implementing single market laws has been impressive, and I hope this trend continues in next month's Scoreboard. However, some Member States still lag behind and are effectively denying citizens and businesses across Europe the full benefit of the single market and of measures their governments have themselves agreed. I must reiterate that the Commission will do all it can to help Member States implement laws on time, but will continue to take remedial action where necessary.”
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