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DRAFT REPORT (2025/2016(INI))

On monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023 and 2024

JURI-PR-778115

Committee on Legal Affairs · Rapporteur: Dainius Žalimas

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This draft report assesses the monitoring, implementation and enforcement of EU law, based on the Commission's 2023 annual report and the Commissioners' 2025 progress reports. It regrets the lack of a 2024 annual report and calls for improved enforcement and simplification.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes a resolution that welcomes the 2023 report but regrets the missing 2024 report, calls for improved enforcement and simplification, and stresses that simplification must not lead to deregulation.

Key points

  1. Regrets that the Commission did not publish an annual report on monitoring the application of EU law for 2024, breaking a practice since 1983.
  2. Welcomes the Commissioners' 2025 Annual Progress Reports but notes they focus too much on achievements and lack attention to persistent challenges and systemic enforcement gaps.
  3. Notes with concern the absence of any reference to the EU Pilot procedure in the sectoral progress reports, undermining completeness of the reports.
  4. Expresses concern over the Commission's reluctance to initiate infringement proceedings and calls for transparent, objective criteria for selecting and prioritising cases.
  5. Urges the Commission to shorten and streamline the pre-litigation phase of infringement procedures.
  6. Urges Member States to adhere to transposition deadlines, engage in implementation dialogues, and notify the Commission timely about obstacles.
  7. Notes limitations of the new Europa implementation platform, which lacks essential information and analysis, making it insufficiently useful.
  8. Notes challenges in applying regulations due to gaps in data and asks the Commission to report on how monitoring activities are adapted.
  9. Stresses that simplification of EU law must not be conflated with deregulation; it should improve clarity and efficiency while preserving policy objectives.

Who is affected

  • The European Commission, which is urged to improve reporting, enforcement criteria, and the EU Pilot procedure.
  • Member States, which are urged to meet transposition deadlines and engage in implementation dialogues.
  • EU citizens and businesses, who are affected by delays and lack of enforcement.

Legal basis: Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union