Between 2014 and 2019, almost 4000 of these letters were dispatched, with an average of 796 per year. In 2019, infringement procedures started to rise again after a 3-year trend of decline.
An infringement procedure can be launched for three different reasons: non-communication: when the member state has failed to communicate its transposition measures to the Commission on time; non-application: when the European Commission finds that the member state’s legislation is not in line with European legislation; misapplication: when European law is not applied, or is applied incorrectly, by the member state;
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(ultimo aggiornamento: martedì 31 Dicembre 2019)