Transposition (EU) meaning

Domestic The Department of Finance launches a public consultation on the transposition of the (EU) Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive The Department of Finance has recently opened a public consultation on the transposition of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (EU) 2025/1 (IRRD). The IRRD entered into force on 28 January 2025 and must be transposed into Irish law by 28 January 2027. It is intended to deliver a harmonised approach to recovery and resolution across the European Union, ensuring insurers and the relevant authorities are better prepared for periods of significant financial distress. The key objectives of the IRRD are to: protect policyholders, beneficiaries and claimants preserve financial stability secure the continuity of (re)insurers’ critical functions...

In this issue: EU fundamentals Competition and state aid Corporate Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals European Commission releases January 2026 infringement package The European Commission has unveiled the January 2026 infringement package, identifying the Member States it is proceeding against for shortcomings in meeting obligations under EU law. This round features letters of formal notice to several Member States for not notifying complete transposition measures for multiple directives, including on financial services contracts concluded at a distance—Directive (EU) 2023/2673, on credit agreements for consumers—Directive (EU) 2023/2225, and on crypto‑asset tax transparency—Directive (EU) 2023/2226. It also covers failures to communicate national implementing measures for Directive (EU) 2023/2123, which aligns exchanges of information on terrorist offences with data protection rules, among other concerns. The...

European Commission v Hungary (C-155/23), European Commission v Republic of Estonia (C-154/23), European Commission v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (C-150/23), European Commission v Czech Republic (C-152/23), and European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany (C-149/23), all in the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). Through rulings dated 6 March 2025, the CJEU found that Germany, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Estonia had unlawfully postponed implementing measures meeting Directive (EU) 2019/1937, the Whistleblowing Directive. Germany received the heaviest sanction—€34m—while the remaining states were ordered to pay sums ranging from €375,000 to €2.3m. As Estonia had still not transposed the Directive by the time of the decision, it will incur a continuing charge of €1,500 per day until it brings its laws into line...

This Practice Note outlines Directive (EU) 2019/770 (OJ L 136/1) on certain aspects of contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services—the EU Digital Content Directive (EU DCD)—brought in as part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy. The EU DCD sets out a range of consumer rights and remedies for business-to-consumer (B2C) agreements covering digital content or digital services, and is complemented by Directive (EU) 2019/771 (OJ L 136/28) on certain aspects concerning contracts for the sale of goods, the EU Sale of Goods Directive (EU SGD). For more on the EU SGD, see Practice Note: The EU Sale of Goods Directive. The EU DCD entered into force on 11 June 2019. EU Member States had to adopt and publish the measures needed to comply by 1 July 2021 and to apply them from 1 January 2022. The national transposition measures can be viewed on the EUR-Lex website. Key information EU Digital Content Directive title: Directive (EU) 2019/770 of the...

This Practice Note sets out the principal amendments to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) regime introduced by Directive 2014/52/EU in 2014. For the complete, amended framework, see Practice Note: EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive—snapshot. Evolution of the EIA regime At EU level, environmental impact assessment was first regulated by Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985, which came into force on 3 July 1985, with a transposition deadline of 3 July 1988. From 1997 to 2009, the 1985 Directive underwent a series of major amendments. Following a 2009 review of the regime’s effectiveness, those changes were codified and consolidated for clarity and coherence in Directive 2011/92/EU (the EU EIA Directive). Directive 2014/52/EU (the 2014 Amending Directive) took effect on 15 May 2014 and made significant revisions to the EU EIA Directive. It sought to: enhance environmental protection streamline the rules for assessing the potential effects of proposed developments on the environment cut the administrative burden Member States had until 16...

RED II—overview The recast Renewable Energy Directive (Directive (EU) 2018/2001, RED II) took effect on 24 December 2018, with a deadline for transposition of 30 June 2021. Its main objective is to set a common framework to advance the use of energy from renewable sources. Directive (EU) 2023/2413 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023, concerning the promotion of renewable energy and amending RED II, Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 (the Governance Regulation) and Directive 98/70/EC, appeared in the Official Journal on 31 October 2023 and came into force on 20 November 2023. The transposition deadline is 21 May 2025, save for the following items which had to be enacted in national law by 1 July 2024: the new Article 15(e) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (covering the designation of dedicated infrastructure areas), and the new Articles 16, 16b, 16c, 16d, 16e and 16f of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (covering permitting procedures and requirements) The revising Directive (EU) 2023/2413 chiefly...

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