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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.

[lock-the-spock]

Indeed. And just to flag that this is not at all unusual, rather it is a regular process of EU law making - the European Commission monitors and ensures that the 27 Member States all implement the jointly agreed laws. Most cases never go to trial/penalty stage, rather the infringement process itself serves to resolve the issue.

See here the 'infringement cases ' statistics. 874 such cases opened in 2021.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/applying...