COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Digital

Five EU countries ordered to pay penalties for failure to transpose revised Electronic Communications Code

Brussels, 14/03/2024 (Agence Europe)

The Court of Justice of the European Union has convicted five Member States—Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia—of failing to fully transpose the European Electronic Communications Code (Directive 2018/1972) into national law, even though the transposition deadline for this code had been set for the end of 2020 (see EUROPE B12927A26 and B12137A9).

By failing to adopt the required national provisions by the expiry of the period prescribed in the reasoned opinion that...