Malta has re-asserted its place as one of the European Union’s best performer in the 28th edition of the Internal Market Scoreboard issued by the European Commission.

Malta recorded, for the second consecutive time, only two outstanding transpositions, which puts it in second place among member states. Malta’s transposition deficit is therefore just two directives short of a zero per cent deficit which is considered a perfect score.

The scoreboard benchmarks member states’ efforts in the implementation of internal market law by recording the transposition deficit, which is the gap between the number of internal market laws adopted at EU level and those in force in the member states.

It takes into account all notifications of directives relating to the internal market with a transposition deadline of last April 30.

Malta’s transposition deficit stands at 0.2 per cent which is significantly below both the EU average (0.7 per cent) and the deficit target set by member states (one per cent).

The scoreboard also places Malta as the member state which takes the least time in transposing EU measures, where a previous average delay of 19.2 months in the previous edition was reduced drastically by 15.6 months to just 3.6 months.

 

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