On Monday 26 July the European Commission asked 22 EU Member States, by opening infringement proceedings against them, to quickly provide information on how the Directive on copyright in the digital single market (2019/790/EU) is transposed into their national law (see EUROPE 12349/17).
This includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia.
The Commission also announced that it had opened infringement proceedings by sending letters of formal notice to the same Member States, with the exception of Denmark and Sweden, for not communicating the national measures implemented - or having only partially implemented them - regarding the transposition of the Directive on online television and radio programmes (2019/789/EU) into national law.
Both directives aim to modernise copyright rules and strengthen the position of the creative industries in the EU, while developing and promoting the use of digital technologies.
The deadline for transposing these directives into national law was 7 June 2021. Member States now have two months to respond to the Commission and take the necessary measures. (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)