Romania ranks among the group of EU member states with the best performance in the transposition of the Internal Market Community acquis, with just a 0.4 percent transposition deficit (7 directives not transposed), reveals the European Commission internal market scoreboard for the second half of 2008 released on Thursday in Brussels. According to the same data, Romania is the EU member state with the fewest open infringement procedures, only 13.
The scoreboard highlights the performance of Denmark and Malta, with just a 0.3-percent transposition deficit (5 directives non transposed), and the performance of the Czech Republic, which managed to reduce the deficit from 2.5 percent to 1.4 percent in just 6 months. On average only 1.0 percent of Internal Market Directives for which the implementation deadline has passed are not currently written into national law. This means that most Member States remain in line with the new 1.0-percent target agreed by heads of state, the document reads.
The current Internal Market Scoreboard shows that most member states maintain their serious commitment in recent years to ensure timely transposition of Internal Market legislation. The future 1.0-percent transposition deficit target was met half a year ago already and is now consolidated. 17 out of 27 member states are already in line with this new target. Two member states (Estonia and the United Kingdom) are 1 directive short of reaching it, leaving 8 member states above: Italy, Belgium and Czech Republic below the 1.5-percent target and Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Poland and Luxembourg still above this ceiling.
The European Commission scoreboard includes an analysis of the cases of transpositions presumed to incorrectly apply the directives transposed. Compared with the other states, Romania and Bulgaria scored the fewest such cases, with just 4 and 3 respectively. At the opposite end, there are Italy and Poland, with 34 and 29 such cases, respectively. If citizens and businesses are to benefit fully from their Internal Market rights, Internal Market legislation has to be both efficiently transposed and effectively applied. It is crucial for the credibility of the Internal Market that member states ensure correct transposition and application of EU law.
Infringement proceedings are a critical instrument available to the Commission to ensure compliance with Community law, the documents explain. The scoreboard indicates that the EU average of open infringement procedures rose again to 49 cases and equals the result from December 2007. The ranking of Member States according to the number of infringement cases remains almost unaltered compared to six month ago. Italy and Spain continue to account for most of the open infringement cases. Nevertheless, Italy managed the highest reduction in open infringement procedures (15), followed by France (9), Spain and Malta (5).
The transposition deficit shows the percentage of Internal Market directives not yet communicated to the Commission as having been transposed, in relation to the total number of Internal Market directives that should have been notified by the deadline. The current scoreboard takes into account all notifications of directives with a transposition deadline until 31 October 2008 that have been notified by 10 November 2008. As of 31 October 2008, 1611 directives and 278 regulations relate to the Internal Market as defined in the EC Treaty.
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