Reference documents on fighting late payments

A new proposal to strengthen the Directive

In April 2009, the Commission proposed further measures to combat late payment in commercial transactions:

• Press release
• Citizen's summary [114 KB]
• Text of the proposal

This proposal will be examined by the European Parliament and the Council under the Co-decision procedure.

Study on the effectiveness of EC legislation on combating late payment (2006)

• Report [2 MB]
• Annex 1 [78 KB]  
• Annex 2 [791 KB]  
• Annex 3 [194 KB]