The EU intensifies the infringement procedures on energy permits laws – PV Magazine International

The European Commission has launched legal actions against eight EU member states for not transposing its review of renewable energy to national law.

February 13, 2025
Patrick Jowett

The European Commission is seeking legal actions against eight EU member states for not assuming new EU rules to accelerate permits procedures for renewable energy projects.

Action refers to Directive (EU) 2023/2413which establishes new rules to simplify and shorten permits procedures for renewable energy projects and introduces the presumption that renewable energy projects, storage and infrastructure of the related network are annulled by public interest.

The deadline to transpose these provisions was on July 1, 2024, and in September 2024, the commission sent formal notification letters to 26 Member States for not completely transpose the directive to the national law in time.

Now he has sent reasoned opinions to Cyprus, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden for not notifying the transposition measures, together with reasoned opinions to Bulgaria, France and the Netherlands for not providing sufficiently clear and precise information about how their transposition efforts reflect each one. of the provisions of the Directive.

In a separate action that begins this month, the Commission has sent reasoned opinions to Hungary and Poland for not having EU rules completely for the internal electricity market as established by the Directive (EU) 2019/944.

The deadline to transpose the Directive, which establishes rules with respect to the organization and operation of the EU electrical sector, to the national law was December 31, 2020.

The Commission has also sent additional reasoned opinions to Belgium, Estonia, Latvia and Romania to completely transpose the 2018 Renewable Energy Directive, which establishes rules on the promotion of renewable energy, after considering previous attempts to transpose legislation as incomplete.

In all cases presented this month, the Member States have two months to respond and take the necessary measures, after which the Commission may decide to send the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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