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The European Commission has published the June 2025 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The June 2025 infringement includes formal notice letters, reasoned opinions, and Court of Justice referrals issued to various Member States for non-compliance in relation to measures such as the transposition of directives on drinking water, waste management, air quality, public procurement, and other key areas.
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The European Commission has published the June 2026 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The June 2026 infringement includes formal notice letters, reasoned opinions and Court of Justice referrals issued to Spain, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Germany, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Sweden, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Cyprus, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia and Latvia across a range of policy areas, including the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive, the Seveso III Directive, the Aarhus Convention, the Birds Directive, the Nitrates Directive, the Services Directive, the Law Enforcement Directive, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) Directive, the Capital Requirements Directive, the Settlement Finality Directive and the Working Time Directive.
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The European Commission has published the March 2025 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The March 2025 infringement includes formal notice letters, reasoned opinions, and Court of Justice referrals issued to Estonia, Italy, Hungary, France, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Croatia, Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, Bulgaria, Greece, Belgium, Spain, and others concerning various directives and regulations, including the Medium Combustion Plants Directive, the Free Movement Directive, the Firearms Directive, the Package Travel Directive, and the European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision.
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The European Commission has published the May 2024 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The May 2024 infringement includes formal notice letters issued to Portugal for failing to correctly transpose Directive 92/43/EEC (the Habitats Directive), Italy for failing to fully and correctly transpose Directive (EU) 2019/904 (the Single-Use Plastics Directive) and for breaching the obligations under Directive(EU)2015/1535 (the Single Market Transparency Directive), Portugal and referred Italy to the Court of Justice for failure to ensure the correct implementation of Directive 2014/89/EU (the Directive establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning), among other issues.
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The European Commission has published the May 2025 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The May 2025 infringement includes formal notice letters, reasoned opinions, and Court of Justice referrals issued to countries including Czechia, Portugal, Ireland, Slovakia, Italy, France, Hungary, Greece, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Key relevant legislation includes the Water Framework Directive, the Landfill Directive, the Single-Use Plastics Directive, the Qualification Directive, the Digital Services Act, and the NIS 2 Directive, among others.
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The European Commission has published the November 2024 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The November 2024 infringement package includes formal notice letters, reasoned opinions, and Court of Justice referrals issued to multiple countries concerning legislation such as Directive 2000/60/EC (the Water Framework Directive), Directive 2008/98/EC (the Waste Framework Directive), Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (the Renewable Energy Directive) and Directive (EU) 2021/2118 (the Motor Insurance Directive).
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The European Commission has published the November 2025 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The November 2025 package includes letters of formal notice, reasoned opinions, and Court of Justice referrals issued to Poland, Slovakia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Sweden, Greece, Italy, Germany, Spain, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Austria, Czechia and others across a range of policy areas, including the Water Framework Directive, the NEC Directive, the Birds and Habitats Directives, and rules on public procurement, firearms, cybercrime, energy and buildings, transport, and financial services.
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The European Commission has published the October 2024 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under  EU law. The October 2024 infringement includes formal notice letters being issued to Finland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and France with regards to various environmental rules, a referral to the Court of Justice sent to Estonia for its failure to provide effective judicial remedy against a visa refusal, a reasoned opinion issued to Bulgaria for incorrectly transposing Directive 2013/48/EU regarding the right of access to a lawyer into national law, and a formal notice letter sent to Romania calling for it to remove restrictions on the pricing and export of electricity and gas, among others.
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The European Commission has published the October 2025 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The October 2025 infringement includes formal notice letters, reasoned opinions, and Court of Justice referrals issued to Belgium, Malta, Estonia, Austria, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and others concerning various directives and regulations, including Directive 1999/31/EC (Landfill Directive), Directive (EU) 2020/2184 (Drinking Water Directive), Directive 2011/92/EU (Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive) among other issues.
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The European Commission has published the September 2024 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The September 2024 infringement includes formal notice letters issued to 17 Member States for failing to correctly transpose Directive (EU) 2022/2464, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and to Spain for not fully transposing Directive 2019/1158, the Work-life Balance Directive, among other issues.
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The European Commission has published the September 2025 infringement package, which sets out the EU Member States the Commission is taking action against for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The September 2025 infringement includes formal notice letters issued to Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Czechia, Finland, Luxembourg and Malta concerning Directive (EU) 2024/1640 (the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive), Directive (EU) 2023/2864 (the ESAP Omnibus Directive), Implementing Directive (EU) 2024/325 on firearms marking, and Directive (EU) 2025/145 on plant health.
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The European Commission has released a collection of annotated model clauses, with commentary, for negotiation or re-negotiation of Bilateral Investment Agreements between EU member states and third countries. The collection of clauses aim to provide guidance for member states. The clauses cover fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, relationship to tax agreements, early dismissal of unfounded claims, parallel claims, sustainable development, and ethical conduct of arbitrators as well as EU-specific provisions.