The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a Directive making it easier for companies to expand the use of digital tools and processes in EU company law. The proposal aims to facilitate cross-border companies’ operations and to increase business transparency and trust by making more information about companies publicly available at EU level. It […]
Evaluation of the Victims’ Rights Directive
On 28 June 2022, the European Commission adopted its evaluation of the Victims’ Rights Directive. The evaluation is one of the Commission’s key actions set out in the EU Strategy on Victims’ Rights (2020 – 2025). It was informed by a support study and data collection that included a public consultation. The evaluation shows that over the past ten years, […]
Commission refers five Member States to the Court of Justice of the EU
The European Commission decided yesterday to refer Czechia [INFR 2020/0510], Ireland [INFR 2020/0531], Romania [INFR 2020/0555], Slovakia [INFR 2020/0563] and Spain [INFR 2020/0521], to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the failure to transpose the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive (“AVMSD”, Directive (EU) 2018/1808), with a request to impose financial sanctions in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU. The AVMSD governs EU-wide coordination of […]
Commission refers Spain to the Court of Justice of the EU for failure to comply with waste water directive
The Commission decided today to refer Spain to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failure to comply with the Urban Waste Water Directive (Council Directive 91/271/EEC). The Directive aims to protect the environment from the adverse effects of urban waste water from the domestic and industrial sectors. Under the Directive, cities are obliged to […]
A court of a Member State must declare that the Member State has not correctly transposed a EU directive
UH, an Irish citizen and a native Irish speaker from the Galway Gaeltacht (the Irish-speaking region of Co. Galway, Ireland), claimed that the information accompanying veterinary medicinal products was written exclusively in the English language. He takes the view that Directive 2001/82 1 requires that information to be in both of the official languages of […]
Spain is ordered to pay a lump sum of € 15 million and a daily penalty payment of € 89.000
The Commission asked the Court of Justice to declare that Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Directive on the protection of personal data The Commission considers that that Member State failed to adopt national measures transposing the Directive and to notify those measures. It, therefore, asked the Court to impose on Spain, […]