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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8320

17 October 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Commission hauls Germany before Court for not having fully transposed directive on gas liberalisation

Brussels, 16/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has decided to take Germany before the Court of Justice as it did not fully transpose the 1998 directive on opening up the gas market to competition by the scheduled date (10 August 2000). Germany has transposed a large part of the directive into national law but several provisions still need adopting by the Bundestag and "no date has as yet been fixed for final adoption", notes the Commission. Germany is said not to have transposed...

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