Brussels, 12/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - Estonia, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, the Czech Republic and Sweden will be required to explain to the European Union Court of Justice (EUCJ) why they did not properly submit their national measures to implement European legislation in the area of professional qualifications and in the financial and postal sectors. The Commission will shortly publish its six-monthly scoreboard on the implementation of European legislation on the internal market.
Professional qualifications. The Czech Republic failed to submit full implementation measures on two Directives on mutual recognition of dental practitioners' (78/686/EEC) and doctors' (93/16/EEC) diplomas. The Commission has decided to refer the matter to the Court of Justice.
Postal services. The Commission has decided to refer Estonia to the EUCJ for failing to submit national measures transposing Directive 2002/39/EC which amends Directive 97/67/EC on the further opening to competition of postal services.
Accounting modernisation. Greece and Italy are to be referred to the Court by the Commission for failure to transpose Directive 2003/51/EC on accounting modernisation, the deadline for which was 1st January 2005.
Monitoring of financial conglomerates. The European Commission will take Luxemburg and Sweden to the Court for non-communication of measures transposing Directive 2002/87/EC on supplementary monitoring of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms in a financial conglomerate. The deadline for transposition expired on 11 August 2004.
Reorganisation and winding-up of credit institutions. Greece failed to transpose Directive 2001/24/EC on the reorganisation and winding-up of credit institutions the deadline for which was 5 May 2004.