Brussels, 27/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 27 September, the European Commission sent a reasoned opinion to Austria and Bulgaria for failing to communicate information regarding the full transposition into their national law of Directive 2009/28/EC for promoting and using renewable energy sources. The “renewables” directive provides a regulatory framework for helping the EU reach its binding objective of increasing the share of renewables to 20% in the EU primary energy consumption by 2020. This should have been fully transposed into the legislation of member states by 5 December 2010 by the latest. These two reasoned opinions come on top of those already sent to Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. (EH/trans/fl)