State of play on the transposition of Directive 2011/7/EU on late payments in commercial transactions: Implementation Appraisal

Briefing 23-06-2015

This briefing aims to present an initial overview of the state of transposition of Directive 2011/7/EU on late payments in commercial transactions. It has been drafted for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee's first "scrutiny session" with the European Commission, on 23rd June 2015, focussing on this directive. Where available, an analysis on implementation and on the operation in practice of EU law on late payments has also been provided. It is produced by the Ex-Post Impact Assessment Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS),