The above chart shows the number of infringement cases open at year-end for the period 2017-2021. By clicking on the multi-level chart you can consult, for 2021, the number of infringement cases open at the year-end per policy sector and per type of infringement.
Most important infringement cases launched in 2021
Some of the most important ongoing infringement cases in 2021
Most important infringement cases closed without a Court of Justice ruling in 2021
Outlook
In 2022, the Commission will continue important enforcement work in the area of financial stability, financial services and capital markets union.
The Commission will:
- assess the completeness of national transposition measures of the Crowdfunding Directive (2020/1504/EU), with transposition deadline late 2021, the Capital Market Recovery Package Directive (2021/338/EU) and two Commission Delegated Directives (Delegated Directives 2021/1269/EU and 2021/1270/EU) on sustainability factors, with expiring transposition deadlines in 2022, and of the implementing measures of the Regulation on a pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP, Regulation (EU) 2019/1238) and of the Crowdfunding Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2020/1503);
- finalise the completeness checks of late transposed directives on financial services, with expiring transposition deadline for end 2020 or during 2021. These include the Capital Requirement Directive (CRD V, Directive 2019/878/EU), the Bank Resolution and Recovery Directive (BRRD II, Directive 2019/879/EU), the Directive on Cross border distribution of investment funds (Directive 2019/1160/EU), the Directive on Prudential supervision of investment funds (Directive 2019/2034/EU), the Directive on Covered bonds and supervision (Directive 2019/2162/EU) and the Directive amending Directive 2009/138/EC on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II), Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments and Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money-laundering or terrorist financing (AML IV) (Directive 2019/2177/EU);
- assess the conformity of national transposition measures of the same directives;
- finalise the conformity checks of AML IV (Directive 2015/849/EU), of the Directive amending Directive 2014/59/EU as regards the ranking of unsecured debt instruments in insolvency hierarchy (Directive 2017/2399/EU), of the MiFI Directives (Directives 2014/65/EU, 2016/1034/EU and Commission Delegated Directive 2017/593/EU), the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD, Directive 2014/17/EU), the Payment Service Directive (PSD2, Directive 2015/2366/EU), the insurance Distribution Directive (IDD, Directive 2016/97/EU) and the Directive on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORPs) (Directive 2016/2341/EU);
- continue ensuring that Member States take appropriate measures to implement the Achmea judgment (C-284/16). Member States are expected to remove all legal effects of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties, either by means of ratifying a plurilateral agreement signed by 23 Member States in 2020 or bilaterally. The Commission has initiated infringement procedures against those Member States which have not complied with their obligations under EU law and will continue monitoring closely the progress made during 2022;
- continue monitoring the implementation by Hungary of the judgment in case C-235/17 (Usufruct Over Agricultural Land).
Important Court of Justice rulings against Member States
- Commission v Slovenia, C-628/18