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In Search of Better Quality of EU Regulations for Prompt Transposition: The Brussels Perspective
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In this article, the authors present new data that covers the full population of all EU transport directives from 1995 to 2004, including the national implementing instruments of France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands and the UK.Abstract:
Better regulation cannot be achieved without serious attention to transposition. The quality of EU regulation is crucial to ensuring that Community law is promptly transposed into national law within the prescribed deadlines. But good quality transposition (clear, simple, and effective) goes beyond pre‐legislative consultation processes and more frequent use of impact assessments as agreed in the 2003 Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Lawmaking. Presenting new data that covers the full population of all EU transport directives from 1995 to 2004—including the national implementing instruments of France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK—this study shows that elements of the EU directives delay transposition. The binding time limit for transposition, the EU directive's level of discretion, its level of detail, its nature and further characteristics of the directive's policy‐making process are all factors. These determining factors are crucial to explaining why Member States miss deadlines when transposing EU Internal Market directives. Brussels' efforts to simplify and improve the regulatory environment have to go beyond more preventive action to strengthen the enforcement of EU legislation at the member‐state level if they want to address the Internal Market constraining effects of Member States' non‐compliance. This study argues that far‐reaching decisions made in the European Commission's drafting and EU policy‐making phase have the greatest effect on the European regulatory framework in which businesses operate and the free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital is at stake. Implementation should be part of the design.read more
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Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take stock of the literature on how European Union policies are being put into practice by the member states, and summarize the most important theoretical, empirical and methodological lessons to be drawn from existing studies, and discuss promising avenues for future research.
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The quest for legitimacy in eu secondary legislation
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The Quest for Legitimacy in EU Secondary Legislation
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The efficiency of ministries in transposing EU directives: Evidence from Ireland:
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The practice of Making EU Policy Work: Implementation Performance, Local Governments, and Air Quality
Abstract: European Union (EU) environmental policy can only work in practice when it is implemented by and within the member states. Yet, despite its importance, we still lack a solid and cumulative understanding of the practical implementation of EU environmental policies, mainly because of the dominance of case-specific empirical insights and the dichotomous conceptualisation of compliant implementation. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for analysing implementation performance, which is built around three dimensions: substance, scope and effort. The framework’s relevance and analytical quality are substantiated by a systematic review of empirical studies on practical implementation of 18 EU environmental directives. We find evidence of three types of knowledge deficits: there is neglect of the ‘scope’ and ‘effort’ dimensions of implementation; disproportionate attention to the Water Framework Directive, and the Northern and Western European member states. The proposed conceptual framework aims to inform future research on EU environmental implementation
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