Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 April 2008
30 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the directives that are overdue; the number of reasoned opinions received from the EU Commission since 2002 regarding delays or non-implementation of such directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16564/08]
View answerThere are currently a total of fifteen Directives due to be transposed by my Department up to 2012. Four of these Directives are currently overdue.
Directive 2005/56/EC on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies is scheduled to be transposed by 30 May 2008.
Directive 2007/13/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to common provisions for both measuring instruments and methods of metrological control is scheduled for transposition by 11 May 2008.
Directives 2007/3/EC and 2007/4/EC on textile names are being transposed by a pair of statutory instruments. This transposition should be complete by 2 May 2008.
My Department has received 24 Reasoned Opinions from the European Commission related to Directives since 2002. The outstanding issues concerning all but one of these Directives have been resolved satisfactorily.
On 23 October 2007, twelve Member States, including Ireland, received a Reasoned Opinion concerning the implementation of Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances as amended by Directive 2003/105/EC (known as the Seveso Directive). Since then considerable progress has been achieved and reported to the EU Commission. Measures are being taken to ensure full compliance as soon as possible.
