Brussels, 14/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the Commission will be sending a reasoned opinion to no fewer than ten Member States for having failed to fully transpose two European directives of June 2003 on the liberalisation of the gas and electricity markets into their national legislation. The legislation in question provides for the total liberalisation of the professional gas and electricity markets on 1 July 2004 and total opening of individual markets on 1 July 2007. According to its spokesperson, Rupert Krietemeyer, the Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, is to send warning letters to Germany, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which have not replied to the formal letters of notice received last October (see EUROPE of 14 October). The Commission had requested that they officially notify it of the measures taken to apply two directives adopted in 2003. Eight Member States are lagging behind when it comes to transposition of the two directives, Lithuania and Ireland only for liberalisation of the gas market. The ten countries will have two months in which to certify that they have come into line with Community legislation before the Commission decides to initiate proceedings at the European Court of Justice.