Commission gives countries two months to transpose EU motor insurance directive

 The European Commission on Thursday gave Portugal and five other countries two months to fully transpose the EU directive on motor insurance into national law, threatening to take the matter to court.

In November's infringement package, the European Commission said it had decided to send reasoned opinions to Portugal, as well as Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia, Malta and Romania because these member states had "failed to notify the Commission of the full transposition into national law of the amended Motor Insurance Directive". 

The deadline for transposition from EU to national law was 23 December 2023. On 25 January this year, the European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to these member states but did not receive a satisfactory response. (...)