The European Commission has referred Belgium to the EU Court for failing to comply with EU rules on electricity and gas markets. It has also referred Italy for its failure to transpose EU rules on protection against radiation. These decisions follow an insufficient response from the Member States to letters of formal notice on the same questions.

The Commission has also sent reasoned opinions to Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom requesting the correct transposition of EU energy efficiency rules into national law and their proper implementation. The Commission has also called on Romania to remove barriers to exports of natural gas. 

These Member States now have two months to respond to the arguments put forward by the Commission; otherwise, the Commission may decide to bring the matter before the Court of Justice of the EU.

The Commission has also sent letters of formal notice to eight Member States (Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland and Slovakia) for failing to fully transpose the requirements on indirect land use change linked to sustainable biofuel production, and to Malta on the reporting of energy-efficient buildings under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.

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