European Directives: Olivier Chastel wants to give priority to a rapid closure of the infringement files
This Tuesday 20 July in the Council of Ministers, Secretary of State for European Affairs Olivier Chastel, in consultation with Minister of Foreign Affairs Steven Vanackere, presented the state of progress concerning the transposition and implementation of European law in Belgian law. This concerned conducting an evaluation of individual files for each FPS and monitoring the infringement proceedings.
The Secretary of State indicated that 26 directives, 22 of them under federal competence, must still be transposed into Belgian law in view of the scoreboard of November 2010.
"We can conclude that in view of the progress registered, 15 Directives seem transposable before the expiration of the time period until 10 November 2010, the date of notification to the European Commission for the scoreboard ; this would allow us to achieve the standard of 1%", Olivier Chastel declared to his colleagues at the Council of Ministers.
Concerning the infringements, the federal level is involved in 69 of the 113 infringement proceedings. "Therefore I am inviting all the authorities concerned to give priority to a rapid closure of the infringement file in which they are involved to take measures to execute the decree of the EU Court of Justice and the six infringement proceedings for non-communication of the transposition measures", Secretary of State Olivier Chastel stressed.
Secretary of State Olivier Chastel will also be attentive to the publication of the European Commission’s scoreboard.
