The Commission adopts a series of infringement decisions due to the failure of Member States to notify the measures adopted to transpose certain EU directives into national law. Letters of formal notice are sent to Member States that have not notified national transposition measures for directives whose transposition deadline has recently expired. In this case, […]
In 2024, 46% of the laws approved in Spain are based on European directives and decisions
Of the 24 laws passed in Spain in 2024, 5 implement European regulations or transpose European directives into Spanish law and another 6 contain references to EU recommendations, programmes or initiatives. Among the regulations approved to transpose European directives and implement European regulations are those related to equal representation in listed companies, the exchange of […]
New EU copyright rules
Monday 7 June marked the deadline for Member States to transpose the new EU copyright rules into national law. The new Copyright Directive protects creativity in the digital age, bringing concrete benefits to citizens, the creative sectors, the press, researchers, educators and cultural heritage institutions across the EU. At the same time, the new Directive […]
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 […]