Press Release: State aid: Commission requests Sweden, Austria and the Czech Republic to fully implement Directive on financial transparency

The European Commission on 7 July 2005 decided to send a formal reminder to Sweden about its obligation to comply with a ruling of the European Court of Justice (case C-141/03, 15 July 2004) that the Kingdom had failed to fulfil its obligations under the EC Treaty by not implementing the Commission Directive on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings (2000/52/EC, amending Directive 80/723/EC). The European Commission also issued a formal request to Austria to implement correctly the same Directive (2002/52/EC) and four formal requests to the Czech Republic to implement the original Directive 80/723/EC and the three amending Directives (85/413/EC, 93/84/EC and 2002/52/EC).