Originally Posted by
Jenbel
Which is exactly why I suggested starting to complain to our MPs at the same time as we complain to AUC. Getting some political pressure on this is likely to be the only way to break the impasse and to do that we need to either form a lobbying pressure group, or to start hassling MPs who hassle Ministers who hassle CE's who hassle underlings who do things just to stop the hassle.
You should also throw in the EU Commission for good measure.
Personally, I would tend to expect more pressure being put by the Commission on national governments to ensure effective enforcement of the Regulation than I would of MPs. In the scale of issues that MPs are likely to feel like picking up a fight with the government about, I would have thought that Reg 261/2004 would be rather low.
The EU Commission can take a Member State to Court is that Member State does not comply with its obligation to enforce the Regulation effectively.