Brussels, 18/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has decided to send reasoned opinions against eight Member States for failure to notify transposition measures after the passing of the deadline for implementation of the new regulatory framework for electronic communications. The Member States concerned are Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal. The Member States had set themselves a deadline in the legislation of 24 July 2003 for the transposition of the main provisions of the new framework but by 6 October 2003, eight countries (the 7 countries mentioned above as well as Spain) had not taken the necessary action to incorporate the Framework, Authorisations, Access and Universal Service Directives into national legislation. Infringement proceedings against the eight Member States were therefore initiated. The Commission has now followed up on this action by sending Reasoned Opinions to seven of those Member States opn Wednesday. Spain recently notified the Commission of its implementation of the Directives in question and the infringement proceeding against it has therefore been closed. The Member States have two months in which to respond. The next step will be the referral of those Member States which have still not complied with their notification requirements to the European Court of Justice.