Press Release: Professional qualifications: Commission refers Luxembourg back to Court for failing to comply with common rules

The European Commission acted on 24 June 2010 to ensure that common EU rules on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications are respected in Luxembourg. It has referred Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In the Commission's view, Luxembourg continues to infringe EU law and has not complied with a judgment of the Court of Justice in 2008 (C-223/08). The Court ruled that Luxembourg had failed to fulfil its obligations to implement a Directive that would extend the scope of common rules on the recognition of professional qualifications to citizens from Romania and Bulgaria. As Luxembourg has still not complied with the Court judgment and has not implemented the Directive in full, the Commission has now decided to refer the case back to the Court again and will ask the Court to impose financial penalties on Luxembourg of 14 280 euro per day from the date of the first Court ruling until the second Court ruling and 4 760 euro per day from the date of the second Court ruling until Luxembourg complies with the Directive.