The Directive aims to help people working or looking for a job in another EU country to exercise their right of free movement, granted by EU law more easily.
It envisages measures to assist and to protect mobile Union citizens, to ensure better access to information on free movement rights, to tackle discrimination on grounds of nationality as regards access to employment, pay and other working conditions as well as to overcome existing unjustified obstacles to free movement.
Member States were under an obligation to transpose this Directive and to communicate national transposition measures to the Commission by 21 May 2016.
Further to the letters of formal notice sent by the Commission in September 2016, the European Commission has decided to send them reasoned opinions.
If these Member States’ authorities fail to act within two months, the case may be referred to the Court of Justice of the EU.