The Commission decided on Friday 30 October to refer Cyprus to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) requesting financial penalties for Nicosia’s failure to notify measures transposing Directive 2016/943 on the protection of know-how and undisclosed commercial information (better known as ‘trade secrets’).
Cyprus has not communicated any transposition measures to date, explains the institution, despite the fact that the deadline set by the directive expired on 9 June 2018....