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EU regulators have begun legal proceedings against 24 member states, including Germany, for failing to enforce a law on energy efficiency, the Commission said on Wednesday.

Energy saving has shot up the list of EU priorities since the conflict with the European Union’s biggest oil and gas supplier Russia over its actions in Ukraine increased concerns about energy security.

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Commission spokeswoman Marlene Holzner told reporters proceedings began automatically against Germany because it had not enforced EU legislation on saving energy.

She only named Germany, but the Commission said that in total, 24 of the bloc’s 28 member states missed a June 5 deadline for fully transposing the European Union’s Energy Efficiency Directive into their national laws.

The Energy Efficiency Directive was signed into law in 2012 to enforce an existing target to reduce energy use by 20 percent by 2020 compared with projected use. The Commission now says the bloc is broadly on track to meet that target through measures such as building insulation.