Commission Refers Bulgaria,Estonia and the United Kingdom to Court

摘要

The European Commission is referring Bulgaria, Estonia and the United Kingdom to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to fully transpose the EU internal energy market rules. To date Bulgaria, Estonia and the UK have only partially transposed the Electricity and Gas Directives. The Directives had to be transposed by the Member States by 3 March 2011.For Bulgaria, for each partially transposed Directive, the Commission proposes a daily penalty of €8,448. For Estonia, the Commission proposes daily penalties of €5,068.80 for the partially transposed Electricity Directive and of €4,224 for the partially transposed Gas Directive.