Brussels, 22/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday the European Commission decided to refer Belgium, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the UK to the European Court of Justice as they have not yet implemented Directive 2001/17/EC to guarantee consumer protection when insurance companies are wound up. The deadline for writing the Directive into national law was 20th April 2003 at the latest.
Since the deadline, the Commission has taken all the procedural steps...