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 12927/26 and 12137/9).
By failing to adopt the required national provisions by the expiry of the period prescribed in the reasoned opinion that each received, Ireland is ordered to pay the European Commission a lump sum of €4.5 million (Case C-439/22), Portugal is ordered to pay a lump sum of €2.8 million (Case C-449/22), Latvia is ordered to pay a lump sum of €300,000 (Case C‑454/22), and Slovenia is ordered to pay a [lump] sum of €800,000 (Case C-457/22).
The Court of Justice held that, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to transpose the directive in question by the date the court examined the facts, Poland has persisted in its failure to fulfil its obligations and demanded that Poland pay a lump sum of €4 million (Case C-452/22). Should the noted failure to fulfil obligations persist at the date of delivery of this judgment, Poland is ordered to pay—as from that date and until it has put an end to that failure—a daily penalty payment of €50,000.
Further information: https://aeur.eu/f/bbc (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)