Brussels, 06/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - In a fairly rare event, the European Commission on Wednesday 6 April went so far as to call on the Court of Justice to apply financial penalties against Sweden, as the country has still not transposed the directive on data conservation (2006/24/EC) into its national law, despite a first ruling of the Court dated 4 February 2010 (C-185/09) instructing it to do so.
In January, Sweden indicated that it expected to be able to come into line with the ruling...