A giant leap for the Czech Republic in adoption of European legislation
The European Commission issued the Internal Market Scoreboard today. In six-month intervals, this document monitors the implementation of European directives in the area of the internal market in individual Member States. In the current issue, the position of the Czech Republic has significantly improved. In the rating of the Member States, the Czech Republic has worked its way up - ahead of Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Poland, Luxemburg and Belgium.
The Czech Republic only needs to implement another 1.4 % of the directives. In 2001 the European Council determined that the deficit in transposition of European legislation into the legal order of the individual Member States must not exceed 1.5 %. In this document the Czech Republic is assessed as the country, of all Member States, that has reached the biggest progress in the implementation in comparison with the previous period. In several parts of the document, the European Commission acknowledges the significant progress of the Czech Republic in implementation of directives in the internal market area.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade stresses the importance of high-quality and timely implementation of EU legal acts. As of 31 December the European Commission recorded a total of 1.622 EC/EU internal market directives that the Member States were obliged to implement. Of this number, 85 directives fall within the competence of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. As of today only 2 directives from this legislation package remain to be implemented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Both directives will be included in the Czech legal order in the near future as a part of the amendment to the energy bill which is currently the subject of second reading in the Chamber of Deputies. In this context we can expect the Ministry of Industry and Trade to have a clean slate regarding the implementation of internal market directives past their transposition deadline in spring 2009.
Contact
- Tomáš Bartovský, spokesperson, gsm: +420 602 508 328, tel.: +420 224 853 311
- e-mail: bartovsky@mpo.cz, press@mpo.cz
Last update: 16.8.2011 15:44
