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Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025

TA-10-2026-0148 · P10_TA(2026)0148 · PE778.115

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Parliament's resolution on monitoring EU law in 2023-2025 regrets the missing 2024 annual report and calls for stronger enforcement, transparency, and simplification without deregulation. It urges the Commission to use infringement procedures fully, publish clear criteria, and improve reporting and data platforms. It stresses the need for impact assessments, stakeholder involvement, and better transposition by Member States. It calls for sector-specific actions in environment, energy, agriculture, media, and other areas.

Key points

  1. Regrets that the Commission did not publish an annual report for 2024, breaking a practice since 1983, and stresses the need for annual monitoring.
  2. Calls on the Commission to improve future overview reports with critical analysis, methodology publication, and focus on substantive effectiveness.
  3. Urges the Commission to use all enforcement tools, including infringement procedures, and to publish transparent criteria for prioritising cases.
  4. Calls for consistent infringement procedures for non-compliance with CJEU rulings, including penalty payments.
  5. Demands that petitions be integrated into enforcement and that detailed statistics on follow-up be provided.
  6. Stresses the need for impact assessments for all legislative proposals and for involving stakeholders and civil society.
  7. Reaffirms the rule of law as essential and supports the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and Article 7 TEU.
  8. Calls for stronger cross-border judicial cooperation and digitalisation of justice tools, including e-Evidence and e-CODEX.
  9. Urges Member States to adhere to transposition deadlines and to engage in implementation dialogues.
  10. Calls for improving the Europa implementation platform and making data transparent and comparable.
  11. Stresses that simplification must not become deregulation and calls for impact assessments and stakeholder consultations.
  12. Calls for sector-specific actions, including environmental implementation dashboards, energy enforcement, and agricultural subsidy transparency.

Who is affected

  • Member States: must transpose and implement EU law correctly and on time, and engage in dialogues.
  • European Commission: must improve monitoring, enforcement, and transparency, and publish reports.
  • Citizens and businesses: benefit from better enforcement and transparency of their rights.
  • Judicial authorities: need independence and resources, and stronger cross-border cooperation.

Figures and deadlines

  • Closed infringement cases fell from 1 030 in 2023 to 535 in 2024; open cases rose from 1 461 to 1 493.
  • New infringement cases increased from 528 in 2023 to 567 in 2024; in 2025, 345 closed and 1 559 active by 31 July.
  • Average transposition delay for Single Market directives is 11.9 months.
  • In 2023, 59 out of 130 Ordinary Legislative Procedures lacked impact assessments; in 2024, 26 out of 31.
  • Between 1 December 2024 and 26 September 2025, 80 Ordinary Legislative Procedures were published, only 18 with impact assessments.
  • Cost of non-implementation of EU environmental law is EUR 180 billion per year; closing the gap would cost EUR 122 billion per year.
  • As of 2 April 2025, 309 environmental infringement proceedings were ongoing: 45 % pollution/water, 24 % waste, 24 % nature/biodiversity, 7 % governance.
  • CAP represents 31 % of EU budget expenditure for 2021-2027.