The EU directive has been transposed into Romanian law as well, initially as Law 298/2008.[46] However, the Constitutional Court of Romania subsequently struck down the law in 2009 as violating constitutional rights.[47] The court held that the transposing act violated the constitutional rights of privacy, of confidentiality in communications, and of free speech.[48] The European Commission has subsequently sued Romania in 2011 for non-implementation, threatening Romania with a fine of 30,000 euros per day.[49] The Romanian parliament passed a new law in 2012, which was signed by president Traian Băsescu in June.[50] The Law 82/2012 has been nicknamed "Big Brother" (using the untranslated English expression) by various Romanian non-governmental organizations opposing it.[49][51][52] On July 8, 2014 this law too was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Romania.[53]