The European Commission is referring Poland and Slovenia to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to fully transpose the EU internal energy market rules. These directives had to be transposed by the Member States by 3 March 2011.
To date Poland has transposed the Electricity Directive only partially; the Commission requests the Court to impose a daily penalty payment of about €84,400. Slovenia has not fully transposed neither the Electricity nor the Gas Directive; for each non-transposed Directive, the Commission proposes a daily penalty of about €10,300.
The Commission has addressed the issue of not fully transposing the directives in the two countries by sending letters of formal notice to Slovenia and Poland in September and November 2011 respectively. Reasoned opinions were sent to Poland in May 2012 and to Slovenia in June 2012. Despite these proceedings, full transposition is still pending in these countries.
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