Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU Directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the directives that are overdue; the number of reasoned opinions received from the EU Commission since 2002 to date in 2008 regarding delays or non-implementation of such directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4062/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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There are currently a total of thirteen Directives due to be transposed by my Department up to 2010. One of these Directives, Directive 2005/56/EC on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies, is currently overdue. It is intended to transpose this Directive by 31 March 2008.

Twelve Directives are scheduled to be transposed in 2008 and subsequent years.

My Department has received 24 Reasoned Opinions from the European Commission related to Directives since 2002. The outstanding issues concerning all but one of these Directives have been resolved satisfactorily.

On 23 October 2007, twelve Member States, including Ireland, received a Reasoned Opinion concerning the implementation of Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances as amended by Directive 2003/105/EC (known as the Seveso Directive). Since then considerable progress has been achieved and reported to the EU Commission. Measures are being taken to ensure full compliance as soon as possible.