EU Member States slower to transpose single market rules

After having fallen steadily, the EU’s single market law average transposition deficit has gone up slightly to 0,7 percent. Only eight member states have a transposition deficit at or below 0,5 percent. With 0,3 percent deficit, the Czech Republic occupies the third place, just after Malta and Denmark. The results of the single market law scoreboarding has been published by European Commission last week.

Sixteen EU member states have a higher transposition deficit than they had six months ago. The most worrying fact is that five member states have exceeded the one-percent target set by the European Council: Belgium, Italy, Cyprus, Romania and Slovenia.

The trasposition deficit represents the percentage of single market directives that have not been transposed into national law in time.

Radim Klekner
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