Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission only decided on Thursday 2 April to close infringement proceedings “due to exceptional circumstances”. This affects 104 cases where problems with Member States have been resolved without the need for further proceedings, she said.
These include infringement proceedings against Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania and Cyprus, which transposed EU rules relating to PNR (‘Passenger Name Record’) data.
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