Paper Issues of transposition and interference Table of Contents

If subnational transposition performance follows the national tendencies, we expect Flemish transposition deficits to increase significantly over the scoreboards of November 2010 through November 2011 and to securely improve after the May 2013 scoreboard. As to the compliance deficit we would expect it to drop throughout 2011, and remain rather steady from then onwards. For Scotland we would expect to see a rather steady transposition deficit, slightly increased throughout 2011-2012, and a considerably food though deteriorating compliance deficit over time.
Where, on the other hand, subnational transposition performances do not evolve in line with the national ones (i.e. where the subnational level performs noticeably better or worse than the central level), the subnational level will portray a transposition profile different from that of their respective
The transposition deficit is the gap between the number of Single Market directives adopted at EU level and those transposed in Member States. The European Commission defines it as follows: “The transposition deficit shows the percentage of notifications of Internal Market directives not yet communicated to the Commission, in relation to the total number of notifications which should have been communicated by the deadline” (Internal Market Scoreboard 21, May 2010).
The compliance deficit is the number of incorrectly transposed directives. The compliance deficit “measures the number of directives transposed where infringement proceedings for non-conformity have been initiated by the Commission, as a percentage of the number of Single Market directives notified to the Commission as either 'transposed' or 'not requiring any further implementation measures'. However, only the Court of Justice can rule definitively that a directive has not been transposed correctly.
Figure 2: Transposition deficit in Belgium and the UK over the internal market scoreboards of May 2010 thru November 2014. Source: European Commission Internal Market Scoreboards.