Migration: Commission refers Belgium to the Court for failing to transpose the Directive on intra-corporate transfers.

European Commission
Press release
Brussels, 25 July 2019

 
Today, the European Commission has decided to refer Belgium to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to transpose the Directive on intra-corporate transfers of staff from outside the EU. The Directive seeks to facilitate the temporary secondment of highly-skilled employees (managers, specialists and trainee employees) of multinational companies to subsidiaries situated in the EU. In May 2014, Member States agreed to transpose the Directive into national law by 29 November 2016. The Commission opened infringement proceedings against Belgium in January 2017. In light of Belgium's failure to transpose the Directive into national law, in October 2017, a reasoned opinion was sent. Belgium has still not yet notified the Commission of the adoption of all measures necessary in order to transpose the Directive, and so today, the Commission has decided to refer Belgium to the Court of Justice of the EU. The Commission is calling on the Court of Justice of the EU to impose financial...
 
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