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Court of Justice of the European Union

PRESSRELEASE No7/20

Luxembourg, 28 January 2020

Judgment in Case C-122/18 Commission v Italy

Italy should have ensured that its public authorities complied, in their commercial transactions with private undertakings, with periods for payment not exceeding 30 or 60 days

In the judgment in Commission v Italy (Directive combating late payment)(C-122/18), delivered on 28 January 2020, the Grand Chamber of the Court held that Italy had infringed Directive 2011/7 on combating late payment in commercial transactions1, in that that Member State had not ensured that its public authorities, when they were debtors in such transactions, effectively complied with periods for payment not exceeding 30 or 60 calendar days, as laid down in Article 4(3) and (4) of that directive.

Full text of the press release: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-01/cp200007en.pdf