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EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules

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> Today, the European Commission decided to refer 11 Member States to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to notify the Commission of transposition measures under two Directives with respect to copyright.

> The Commission decided to refer Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice of the EU following their failure to notify complete transposition measures on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (Directive (EU) 2019/790).

> Secondly, with regard to a more specific EU Directive on copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions (EU Directive 2019/789), the Commission is referring Bulgaria, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice for not notifying complete transposition of EU rules to the Commission

That didn't need to be a tweet of a screenshot of some text really, did it?

Also I count six countries there, you can't double-count a country just because there are two charges.

Re: EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules

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I mean, yes, that is what happens to Member States who don't bring in legislation relating to the EU competencies when passed. That's... y'know, the point.

The fuller process is described as:

Under Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), if the Member State concerned does not comply with the reasoned opinion within the period laid down by the Commission, the latter may bring the matter before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Additionally, under Article 260(3) TFEU, the Commission can call on the Court of Justice of the EU to impose financial sanctions on the Member States that failed to fulfil their obligation to notify measures transposing a legislative directive

Re: EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules

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Bulgaria, Poland and Portugal voted for it. Maybe they should have voted against it in council.

Good point.

The Counsel vote was from the executive branch, the country vote is from the legislative branch.
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