IRELAND – ECJ
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE IRISH government's alleged failure to adequately implement a directive giving lawyers the right to easily register and work in Ireland has led the European Commission to threaten the levying of potentially enormous daily recurring fines.Brussels has sent Dublin a legal final warning letter that tells it to quickly comply with a European Court of Justice ruling of last December that it should transpose directive 98/5/EC on the establishment of lawyers onto its statute book.The EU legislation, which was supposed to have been implemented by March ...
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