when a Member State request for de-registration on grounds of serious failure to fulfil obligations under national legislation meets the requirements set out in Article 16(2)(b).

The implementation of this Regulation is without prejudice to the application of Article 258 TFEU with respect to failures of Member States to fulfil obligations under Union law.

The authorisation is without prejudice to the application of Article 258 of the Treaty with respect to failures of Member States to fulfil obligations under the Treaties other than those concerning incompatibilities arising from the allocation of competences between the Union and its Member States.

The authorisation is without prejudice to the application of Article 258 of the Treaty with respect to failures of Member States to fulfil obligations under the Treaties other than those concerning incompatibilities arising from the allocation of competences between the Union and its Member States.

The failure to notify seems, moreover, a consistent practice among Member States: whereas other areas of failure to fulfil obligations show enormous differences in the behaviour of Member States, the failure to notify transposition measures (and draft technical regulations under Directive 98/34/EC) is shared almost equally.

The Commission's Directorate-General for the Internal Market, which, as stated in its communication of 24 February 1999, already considered provisions which reserve certain public contracts for companies totally or largely owned by the State or public authorities contrary to the provisions of the Treaty of Rome and the principles of equal treatment, announced that it intended to ask the Italian authorities for all the information needed to ascertain whether the public contracts assigning water supply services to 'Acquedotto Pugliese Spa' are compatible with Community law and that if they proved to be incompatible, procee ...[+++]dings for failure to fulfil obligations under the Treaty might be initiated (under Article 226 of the Treaty).