Adequate Minimum Wages Directive

Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: transposition deadline, partially annulled by the CJEU

Directive (EU) 2022/2041, Art. 17(1) transposition deadline. On 2025-11-11 the Court of Justice (Case C-19/23, Denmark v Parliament and Council) annulled Art. 5(2) and part of Art. 5(3) — the mandatory adequacy-reference criteria and the no-decrease rule for automatic indexation — as exceeding EU competence over pay under Art. 153(5) TFEU. Arts. 4, 5(1), 5(4)-(6) and 6 remain valid.

Not a direct compliance duty for individual companies; relevant background for any business affected by a national statutory minimum wage or by collective-bargaining coverage rules, and for anyone relying on the Directive's adequacy criteria as settled law after the partial annulment.