Responding to a parliamentary question raised in October, and amid uneven progress on national implementation, the European Commission has reaffirmed its expectation that all Member States will transpose the Directive by the June 2026 deadline.

On 18 December 2025, the Commission issued its written response to a priority question submitted by a Member of Parliament on 29 October 2025.

The Member of Parliament submitted their question following the announcement from the Netherlands that it would be delaying the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into national law beyond the implementation deadline of 7 June 2026 (we wrote about this further here). Against this context, the Member of Parliament raised three queries:

• "What is the Commission's view of the Netherlands' postponement of the Pay Transparency Directive?
• Does the Commission have any current plans to revise the Pay Transparency Directive with a view to cutting red tape for Europe's businesses and authorities?
• What is the Commission's estimate of the transition costs to business and to the public purse, as well as of the ongoing costs in the EU, of fully implementing the directive as it currently stands?"

In its written answer, the European Commission confirmed as follows:

"The Commission reaffirms that the Pay Transparency Directive is instrumental for the full realisation of the right to equal pay for the same work or work of equal value between women and men and remains fully committed to its...

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