Rail transport: Commission refers Greece, Luxembourg and Romania to the Court of Justice of the EU for failure to transpose the Directive on a single European railway area

On the 22 July 2016, the European Commission agreed to refer Greece, Luxembourg and Romania to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to transpose into national law a Directive, establishing a single European railway area, by 16 June 2015.

Since the publication of Directive 2012/34/EU in December 2012, the European Commission had adopted a series of implementing acts. The non-transposition of the Directive can fragment the internal market and hamper the coherent applications of the secondary acts adopted under it.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 establishing a single European railway area http://www.europeansources.info/record/directive-2012-34-eu-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-of-21-november-2012-establishing-a-single-european-railway-area/

ESO: Background information: Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on cooperation between regulatory bodies under Article 63(2) of Directive 2012/34/EU http://www.europeansources.info/record/report-from-the-commission-to-the-european-parliament-the-council-the-european-economic-and-social-committee-and-the-committee-of-the-regions-on-cooperation-between-regulatory-bodies-under-article-6/

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