Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which her Department has responsibility that remain to be implemented; the directives that are now overdue; the number of reasoned opinions received from the EU Commission since 2002 regarding delays or non-implementation of such directives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11388/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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A total of fifteen Directives require to be transposed by my Department up to 2012. Two Directives are currently overdue namely Directive 2006/123/EC on Services in the Internal Market and Directive 2006/43/EC on Statutory Audits of Annual and Consolidated Accounts. Work on the transposition of the Services directive is continuing and my Department received a second draft of the Regulations from the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel just over two weeks ago. While there remains a significant amount of work to complete, our target date for transposition is now July this year. It is hoped to have the Directive on Statutory Audits transposed in the next few weeks.

My Department has received 26 Reasoned Opinions from the European Commission relating to Directives since 2002. The transposition of EU Directives is an ongoing priority in my Department and is reported to the Management Board on a regular basis. Up to date information on the transposition of directives is also published on my Department's website.