Brussels Takes Hungary To Court Over Energy Legislation
- 26 Mar 2015 4:00 AM
The European Commission has referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice for failure to transpose EU law into its legislation on energy efficiency, the Commission said. The move will take an infringement procedure launched against Hungary earlier to the third, litigation stage. Brussels has asked the court to impose a fine of 15,444 euros per day until the breach is stopped.
Under the relevant EU directive the member states must meet certain energy savings targets until December 2020.
This is expected through policy measures on energy efficiency improvements in households, buildings, industry and transport sectors.
The member states had to transpose the obligations of that directive by June 2014.
“To date Hungary has not notified the Commission of a single piece of legislation by which it would transpose the directive,” the EC said in a statement.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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