“The Commission sent today 15 Reasoned Opinions to these 8 Member States to urge them to comply with their legal obligation. The Member States now have two months to respond. If they fail to comply the Commission may refer them to the Court of Justice of the European Union,” the European Commission said in a news release.
The Directives on electricity and natural gas were supposed to be transposed into national legislations by March 3, 2011, according to the news release.
“As to date Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia have not informed the Commission of any transposition measures for the two Directives and Estonia has not done so as regards the Gas Directive,” the Commission writes.
The head of the European Commission delegation to Romania, Istvan Szekely, recently said Romania will deregulate the price of energy supplied to the public between 2013 and 2017, i.e. over two extra years than initially agreed.
In his turn, the head of the International Monetary Fund’s delegation to Romania, Jeffrey Franks, said the adjustment of electricity prices for industrial consumers will enter adjustment in upcoming months, while the prices paid by household consumers would be adjusted between 2013 and 2017.