Commission refers Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Romania and Spain to the CJEU over transposition of rules on Collective Rights Management

Further information:

The Commission calls on the CJEU to impose financial penalties on those 4 Member States (Bulgaria - €19 121,60 per day, Luxembourg - €12 920,00 per day, Romania - €42 377,60 per day and Spain - €123 928,64 per day).

Background information:

The Collective Rights Management Directive (Directive 2014/26/EU) was adopted on 4 February 2014. The deadline for its transposition into national law was 10 April 2016. It aims at improving the way all collective management organisations are managed by establishing common governance, transparency and financial management standards. It also sets common standards for the multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market.

The infringement proceedings were opened against those countries in May 2016. To date, these Member States have not yet notified the Commission of taking the necessary steps to transpose the Directive into national law.

The European Commission decided on 7 December 2017 to refer Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Romania and Spain to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failure to notify complete transposition of EU rules on collective management of copyright and related rights, and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use into national law as foreseen the Collective Rights Management Directive (2014/26/EU).

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