<h6><strong>The Diplomat</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The People’s Parliamentary Group has presented a Non-Law Proposal in which the Government is urged to transpose the 87 pending European directives, “prioritizing those that have already exceeded their compliance deadline”, and to improve coordination between the Ministries to speed up the adaptation of European regulations to the Spanish legal system.</strong></h4> The motion, presented on January 31 for debate in the Joint Committee for the European Union, recalls that, according to the annual report of the Office of the European Parliament in Spain, 46% of the laws approved by the Cortes Generales (Spanish Parliament) in 2024 have a European origin. In addition, of the 24 laws approved this year, eleven derive from Community directives or regulations, including “key measures”, such as work-life balance or equal representation in listed companies. The same report, based on data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, states that, as of December 9, 2024, “there were at least 87 European directives pending transposition into national legislation, most of them with a transposition deadline in 2024, 2025 and 2026”. “Of these, 31 have already met their transposition deadline,” it adds. In addition, the vast majority of these directives are related to issues such as Ecological Transition, Economy, Migration, Health or Housing, “areas that face important challenges both at national and European level”. “Thus, Spain remains the Member State with the most open infringements by the European Commission for failure to transpose, with a total of 90 cases,” it adds. “The Government’s neglect of its duties to transpose European directives,” the PP motion continues, “is joined by the lack of legal quality of the regulations processed and the abuse of the Royal Decree Law formula with absolutely disparate content that contravenes the necessary legal rigor and the constitutional precept that reserves the use of this regulatory formula for situations of urgent need.” For all these reasons, the Non-Law Proposal urges the Government to “draw up the necessary regulations to transpose the 87 pending European directives, prioritizing those that have already exceeded their compliance deadline” and to “improve the effectiveness of coordination between Ministries to speed up the adaptation of European regulations to the Spanish legal system.” It also calls for the promotion of “a continuous dialogue with the different parliamentary groups to ensure that the regulations of European origin are debated and adapted with the maximum efficiency and transparency” and for “coordination and consultation with the competent institutions at European, national and regional level to be guaranteed prior to the start of the process, in order to favour its subsequent implementation”. Finally, the text urges the Executive to “reverse the abuse of the Royal Decree Law as the usual way of legislating by the Government in order to achieve the highest quality of the standards required by the EU”.
