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In December 2019, Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (hereafter 'the directive') entered into force. Member States had 2 years to transpose the directive into their domestic legal systems. Prior to the entry into force of the directive, the legal framework was fragmented at national level and limited in scope to specific sectors at EU level (i.e. financial services and transport safety). Transposition did not prove easy, and the European Commission ...

This study was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee. It analyses the consequences of the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal for the legal relationship between Poland and the EU, compares it to the case law of other Member States’ highest courts and makes policy recommendations on how to deal with the judgment.

Each year, millions of live animals are transported by road, sea, rail and air within, and to or from, the European Union, for a number of reasons, such as slaughter, fattening or breeding. To protect their welfare during those journeys, the EU adopted Regulation 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport. An evaluation of the regulation showed that, when correctly implemented and enforced, it had a positive impact on the welfare of animals. However, in some areas weaknesses still persist ...

Diese Studie wurde auf Antrag des Petitionsausschusses von der Fachabteilung Bürgerrechte und konstitutionelle Angelegenheiten des Europäisches Parlaments in Auftrag gegeben. Sie stellt eine Analyse des EU-Petitionsrechts, als ein Schlüsselelement partizipativer Demokratie, und seiner Verfahren dar, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Petitionsausschuss und der Kommission liegt. Untersucht werden die Verfahren zur Behandlung von Petitionen und Verstößen gegen das EU-Recht, insbesondere ...

On 11 April 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a new directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers. Currently, consumer organisations or independent public bodies can bring actions in the name of consumers in courts or before administrative authorities to stop infringements of consumer legislation. According to the proposal, they would be able to demand compensation for consumers as well. The co-legislators adopted a new directive ...

This study assesses the implementation of the EU fisheries control system under the current Regulation (EC) No 1244/2009. It focuses on the infringement procedures, sanctions and the application of the point system for serious infringements by Member States from 2014 to 2019. The research shows results based on interviews and survey replies by 17 out of 22 coastal Member States. And it presents case studies for the following seven countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania and ...

European consumers enjoy a high level of rights, but when the rules protecting them are broken, they need to be enforced. The main goals of enforcement are to prevent and punish infringements, and to enable consumers harmed by infringements to get wrongs put right (consumer redress). In the 2019 consumer conditions scoreboard poll, one in five consumers said that they had encountered problems when buying a product or service in the previous 12 months. However, whereas two thirds of them had complained ...

On 11 April 2018, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive on better enforcement and modernisation of EU consumer protection rules, as part of its 'new deal for consumers' package of measures. The proposal followed a fitness check of consumer legislation and an evaluation of the Consumer Rights Directive that showed that EU consumer legislation could benefit from certain aspects being clarified and brought into line with the reality of the digital economy. Following negotiations ...

Die vorgeschlagene neue Verordnung der EU zum Schutz von Personen, die Verstöße gegen das Unionsrecht melden, deckt einen großen Teil des Unionsrechts ab, unter anderem die Bereiche Geldwäsche, Unternehmensbesteuerung, Datenschutz, Schutz der finanziellen Interessen der Union, Lebensmittel- und Produktsicherheit, Umweltschutz und nukleare Sicherheit. Das Europäische Parlament soll im Rahmen der letzten Plenartagung dieser Wahlperiode über die Annahme eines Kompromisstextes zu dem Vorschlag abstimmen ...

Im Zuge ihrer Bemühungen um die verbesserte Einhaltung der Verbraucherschutzvorschriften hat die Kommission eine Richtlinie über Verbandsklagen zum Schutz der Kollektivinteressen der Verbraucher vorgeschlagen. Mit dem Vorschlag, der als Teil der „Neuen Rahmenbedingungen für die Verbraucher“ vorgestellt wurde, soll es Verbrauchern in der gesamten EU ermöglicht werden, mithilfe von Verbandsklagen Schadensersatz von Unternehmen zu fordern, die ihre Rechte verletzt haben. Das Europäische Parlament wird ...