## Data
The chart shows percentage of all EU directives **not** sufficiently *transposed* – meaning not incorporated into the member state’s national laws to a statisfying degree (see details in the next section).
> Incorrect transposition, implementation and application of EU rules creates barriers and obstacles to a smooth functioning of the Single Market. Delays or gaps in transposition deprive citizens and businesses of the benefits stemming from a common rulebook, sometimes even for years.
> In its calculation of the transposition deficit of each Member State, the Commission includes:
> * directives for which no transposition measures have been communicated
> * directives considered as partially transposed by the Member State in question, after notifying some transposition measures
> * directives the Member State in question considers completely transposed, but for which the European Commission has launched an infringement proceeding for non-communication, **and** the Member State has not notified new transposition measures after the latest procedural step taken by the Commission
## Key Messages
> * Five Member States have improved their overall transposition performance since December 2019 (Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia and France) and 8 Member States have maintained it (Greece, Spain, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Finland). The performance of the remaining 14 Member States has deteriorated.
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> * The average transposition deficit has increased to 1% while the average conformity deficit has never been as high as in 2020, namely at 1.4%. The average transposition delay decreased by 36%, from 11.5 months in 2019 to 7.4 months.
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>* Further efforts to reduce the number of EU directives that are transposed by the Member States with delay or incorrectly, will help the Single Market to unlock its full potential and its economic and social benefits. The Long-term action plan for better implementation and enforcement of single market rules includes specific actions that should increase the co-operative mechanisms and procedures supporting Member States’ efforts towards improved compliance.
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> * The correct implementation of the Single Market rules will ensure its smooth-functioning and renders it an essential tool for the economic recovery of the EU and for consolidating Europe’s resilience and competitiveness. In this context, it appears essential that the national authorities devote sufficient resources to the application of the Single Market acquis and take measures to guarantee the required administrative capacity.
Hungary ain’t so tough irl it seems.
Spain come on, you can do better…
Not sure what Belgium is guilty of not implementing but guys, we have 6 (!) governments and 6 (!) parliaments here. By the time things are processed and done, most of us gain a few additional grey hairs at least. We are like real-life Ents who take a while to decide when to hold an Entmoot.
With the wave of right wing natioanlist governments across Europe, I think the days of EU is numbered, and we might just continue the old european tradition of killing each other for shit.
Interesting, but that color palette is terrible ^ ^
Norway isn’t even in the EU, an does better than most EU-members.
Seeing the state of Portugal, the price of rent, electricity,gas and food and my salary… EU, FUCK YOU AND YOUR DIRECTIVES…
Portugal should stop being the lapdog and start misbehaving
In Poland it’s actually worse.
1. We are late with implementation of even non controversial directives as Polish lawyers working for ministries have this brilliant idea of inventing wheel again i.e. drafting law from the scratch/patching up old law which should be written again (ofc all in the wrong moment).
2. Due to working from scratch we are notoriously twisting directives goals/aims with local particularities (at lawmaking process, peculiarities at enforcement of implemented directives will naturally exist and are harder to remove).
This especially applied to sector laws (eg capital markets). I can find dozen examples from head where Poland consciously or not goes against directives (by all governments) such as ridiculous mandatory tender offer threshold (50% now, previously 66%), more stringent reporting of listed companies (even though directive explicitly prohibits it) or missed directive extending control definition (yeah missed, we’ve just missed it).
Current government trying to pass EU rules fast, because the previous one straight up ignored them, while the parliament being constantly obstructed by the opposition, who ignored them in the first place.
Well, would you look at that. I’ve never seen Spain get even a 1/10 of the shit we get on this sub. Talk about hypocrisy.
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I’m kinda confused about Italy
There you have it.
Denmark is all bark, but no bite.
Obidient little puppy following the commands of the master.
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## Data
The chart shows percentage of all EU directives **not** sufficiently *transposed* – meaning not incorporated into the member state’s national laws to a statisfying degree (see details in the next section).
* About European Economic Area: [*EEA* – Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area)
* About European Free Trade Agreement: [*EFTA* – Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association)
* EEA consists of all EU members, plus three EFTA members: Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Note that the EFTA members only have to implement EU rules in specific areas. Their percentage is calculated in only the relevant areas. Read more: [*Basic features of EEA* – EFTA.](https://www.efta.int/eea/eea-agreement/eea-basic-features)
* The data is from 10/12/2020. I could find more recent data for EFTA members but not for EU members, so I decided to use contemporary data for both. As of this date there existed 1027 directives and 5409 regulations. The average across EEA was 1.0% transposition deficit.
* Data for EU EEA members: [European Comission](https://single-market-scoreboard.ec.europa.eu/governance-tools/transposition)
* Data for EFTA EEA members: [EFTA Surveillance Authority](https://www.eftasurv.int/cms/sites/default/files/documents/gopro/Final%20Scoreboard%20No%2047%20for%20publishing.pdf)
## Transposition
From [European Comission report.](https://single-market-scoreboard.ec.europa.eu/governance-tools/transposition)
> Incorrect transposition, implementation and application of EU rules creates barriers and obstacles to a smooth functioning of the Single Market. Delays or gaps in transposition deprive citizens and businesses of the benefits stemming from a common rulebook, sometimes even for years.
> In its calculation of the transposition deficit of each Member State, the Commission includes:
> * directives for which no transposition measures have been communicated
> * directives considered as partially transposed by the Member State in question, after notifying some transposition measures
> * directives the Member State in question considers completely transposed, but for which the European Commission has launched an infringement proceeding for non-communication, **and** the Member State has not notified new transposition measures after the latest procedural step taken by the Commission
## Key Messages
> * Five Member States have improved their overall transposition performance since December 2019 (Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia and France) and 8 Member States have maintained it (Greece, Spain, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Finland). The performance of the remaining 14 Member States has deteriorated.
>
> * The average transposition deficit has increased to 1% while the average conformity deficit has never been as high as in 2020, namely at 1.4%. The average transposition delay decreased by 36%, from 11.5 months in 2019 to 7.4 months.
>
>* Further efforts to reduce the number of EU directives that are transposed by the Member States with delay or incorrectly, will help the Single Market to unlock its full potential and its economic and social benefits. The Long-term action plan for better implementation and enforcement of single market rules includes specific actions that should increase the co-operative mechanisms and procedures supporting Member States’ efforts towards improved compliance.
>
> * The correct implementation of the Single Market rules will ensure its smooth-functioning and renders it an essential tool for the economic recovery of the EU and for consolidating Europe’s resilience and competitiveness. In this context, it appears essential that the national authorities devote sufficient resources to the application of the Single Market acquis and take measures to guarantee the required administrative capacity.
Hungary ain’t so tough irl it seems.
Spain come on, you can do better…
Not sure what Belgium is guilty of not implementing but guys, we have 6 (!) governments and 6 (!) parliaments here. By the time things are processed and done, most of us gain a few additional grey hairs at least. We are like real-life Ents who take a while to decide when to hold an Entmoot.
With the wave of right wing natioanlist governments across Europe, I think the days of EU is numbered, and we might just continue the old european tradition of killing each other for shit.
Interesting, but that color palette is terrible ^ ^
Norway isn’t even in the EU, an does better than most EU-members.
Seeing the state of Portugal, the price of rent, electricity,gas and food and my salary… EU, FUCK YOU AND YOUR DIRECTIVES…
Portugal should stop being the lapdog and start misbehaving
In Poland it’s actually worse.
1. We are late with implementation of even non controversial directives as Polish lawyers working for ministries have this brilliant idea of inventing wheel again i.e. drafting law from the scratch/patching up old law which should be written again (ofc all in the wrong moment).
2. Due to working from scratch we are notoriously twisting directives goals/aims with local particularities (at lawmaking process, peculiarities at enforcement of implemented directives will naturally exist and are harder to remove).
This especially applied to sector laws (eg capital markets). I can find dozen examples from head where Poland consciously or not goes against directives (by all governments) such as ridiculous mandatory tender offer threshold (50% now, previously 66%), more stringent reporting of listed companies (even though directive explicitly prohibits it) or missed directive extending control definition (yeah missed, we’ve just missed it).
Current government trying to pass EU rules fast, because the previous one straight up ignored them, while the parliament being constantly obstructed by the opposition, who ignored them in the first place.
Well, would you look at that. I’ve never seen Spain get even a 1/10 of the shit we get on this sub. Talk about hypocrisy.
[deleted]
I’m kinda confused about Italy
There you have it.
Denmark is all bark, but no bite.
Obidient little puppy following the commands of the master.