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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10484
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/internal market

Services directive - penalties on three countries

Brussels, 27/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 27 October, the European Commission decided to take action at the European Court of Justice against Germany, Austria and Greece - the only member states not to have fully transposed the services directive adopted in 2006, which was to have been implemented by December 2009. For the first time, the Commission is using a new possibility set out in the Lisbon Treaty, requesting the Court, as soon as a case is referred, to impose daily penalty...

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