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In December 2019, Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (hereafter 'the directive') entered into force. Member States had 2 years to transpose the directive into their domestic legal systems. Prior to the entry into force of the directive, the legal framework was fragmented at national level and limited in scope to specific sectors at EU level (i.e. financial services and transport safety). Transposition did not prove easy, and the European Commission ...

Niniejszą analizę przeprowadzono na zlecenie Departamentu Tematycznego ds. Praw Obywatelskich i Spraw Konstytucyjnych Parlamentu Europejskiego na wniosek Komisji Wolności Obywatelskich, Sprawiedliwości i Spraw Wewnętrznych. Przeanalizowano w niej wpływ wyroku polskiego Trybunału Konstytucyjnego na stosunki prawne między Polską a UE, porównano go z orzecznictwem najwyższych organów sądowych w innych państwach członkowskich oraz przedstawiono zalecenia strategiczne dotyczące dalszego postępowania z ...

Each year, millions of live animals are transported by road, sea, rail and air within, and to or from, the European Union, for a number of reasons, such as slaughter, fattening or breeding. To protect their welfare during those journeys, the EU adopted Regulation 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport. An evaluation of the regulation showed that, when correctly implemented and enforced, it had a positive impact on the welfare of animals. However, in some areas weaknesses still persist ...

This study was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee. It presents an analysis of the EU right to petition, as a key element of participatory democracy, and its procedure with a focus on the cooperation between the Committee on Petitions and the Commission. It examines the procedures to deal with petitions and infringements of EU law, in particular EU environmental law. It provides an overview ...

On 11 April 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a new directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers. Currently, consumer organisations or independent public bodies can bring actions in the name of consumers in courts or before administrative authorities to stop infringements of consumer legislation. According to the proposal, they would be able to demand compensation for consumers as well. The co-legislators adopted a new directive ...

This study assesses the implementation of the EU fisheries control system under the current Regulation (EC) No 1244/2009. It focuses on the infringement procedures, sanctions and the application of the point system for serious infringements by Member States from 2014 to 2019. The research shows results based on interviews and survey replies by 17 out of 22 coastal Member States. And it presents case studies for the following seven countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania and ...

European consumers enjoy a high level of rights, but when the rules protecting them are broken, they need to be enforced. The main goals of enforcement are to prevent and punish infringements, and to enable consumers harmed by infringements to get wrongs put right (consumer redress). In the 2019 consumer conditions scoreboard poll, one in five consumers said that they had encountered problems when buying a product or service in the previous 12 months. However, whereas two thirds of them had complained ...

On 11 April 2018, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive on better enforcement and modernisation of EU consumer protection rules, as part of its 'new deal for consumers' package of measures. The proposal followed a fitness check of consumer legislation and an evaluation of the Consumer Rights Directive that showed that EU consumer legislation could benefit from certain aspects being clarified and brought into line with the reality of the digital economy. Following negotiations ...

Proponowane nowe rozporządzenie UE w sprawie ochrony osób zgłaszających przypadki naruszenia unijnego prawa obejmuje szeroką gamę przepisów UE, w tym dotyczących prania pieniędzy, opodatkowania przedsiębiorstw, ochrony danych, ochrony interesów finansowych Unii, bezpieczeństwa żywności i produktów, ochrony środowiska i bezpieczeństwa jądrowego. Głosowanie w Parlamencie nad zatwierdzeniem kompromisowego tekstu wniosku ma się odbyć na ostatniej sesji plenarnej w tej kadencji.

W ramach działań mających poprawić przestrzeganie zasad ochrony konsumentów Komisja Europejska przedstawiła wniosek dotyczący dyrektywy w sprawie powództw przedstawicielskich w celu ochrony zbiorowych interesów konsumentów. Wniosek, stanowiący część „nowego ładu dla konsumentów”, ma umożliwić konsumentom w całej UE wnoszenie powództw przedstawicielskich, aby domagać się odszkodowania od przedsiębiorstw naruszających ich prawa. Głosowanie Parlamentu Europejskiego nad stanowiskiem w pierwszym czytaniu ...