Malta – overall best performer in transposing EU legislation

It is the first time ever that the EU average transposition deficit is better than the interim target set by Heads of State and Government. At 0.7% the EU average transposition deficit is well below the interim target of 1% to be achieved by 2009. This is a welcome improvement on the previous position. In total, 16 Member States achieved or equalled their best result ever: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, France, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Finland and the United Kingdom. Lithuania and Malta are the overall best performers with 3 directives away from a perfect score.

The report states that ‘Malta deserves praise for its ranking in first position for the third consecutive time'.

The full report may be downloaded on http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/score/docs/score20_en.pdf