Today the civil liberties committee of the European Parliament urged the
Member States to improve the transposition of the free movement
directive. Not one Member State has transposed the Directive effectively
and correctly in its entirety. Only seven Member States have problems of
compliance limited only to a few provisions, while in the other 20
Member States, considerable and crucial provisions of the directive have
not been correctly transposed. Often Member States prevent spouses and
children from joining their husband of father working elsewhere in the
EU.
Moreover the Commission had to open, between June 2006 and February
2007, 19 infringement proceedings against Member States for
non-communication of national implementing measures that are now all
closed and it has received more than 1800 individual complaints, 40
questions from Parliament and 33 petitions on the application of the
Directive.
Adina VALEAN (PNL, Romania), Parliament's rapporteur on the
implementation of the free movement directive Directive (EC 38/2004)
expressed her frustration:
"Member States have clearly been extremely poor in implementing EU law
granting free movement and residence in another Member State. This
amounts to a substantial sabotage of a fundamental right, of EU law and
of the EU Treaties. It is high time the Commission took action against
the Member States in order to end the discrimination and to make sure
that people can move freely and families can be re-united.
It is of great regret to see that years after the directive was approved
and entered into force, and years after enlargement, Member states are
still discriminating on the basis of nationality against EU citizens who
exercise one of their fundamental rights."
EP urges Member States to guarantee free movement of its citizens
16/03/2009
Today the civil liberties committee of the European Parliament urged the Member States to improve the transposition of the free movement directive. Not one Member State has transposed the Directive effectively and correctly in its entirety. Only seven Member States have problems of compliance limited only to a few provisions, while in the other 20 Member States, considerable and crucial provisions of the directive have not been correctly transposed. Often Member States prevent spouses and children from joining their husband of father working elsewhere in the EU.
Moreover the Commission had to open, between June 2006 and February 2007, 19 infringement proceedings against Member States for non-communication of national implementing measures that are now all closed and it has received more than 1800 individual complaints, 40 questions from Parliament and 33 petitions on the application of the Directive.
VALEAN (PNL, Romania), Parliament's rapporteur on the implementation of the free movement directive Directive (EC 38/2004) expressed her frustration:
"Member States have clearly been extremely poor in implementing EU law granting free movement and residence in another Member State. This amounts to a substantial sabotage of a fundamental right, of EU law and of the EU Treaties. It is high time the Commission took action against the Member States in order to end the discrimination and to make sure that people can move freely and families can be re-united.
It is of great regret to see that years after the directive was approved and entered into force, and years after enlargement, Member states are still discriminating on the basis of nationality against EU citizens who exercise one of their fundamental rights."
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