Malta ranks joint first in transposition of EU laws

Malta and Estonia have been ranked as the EU countries with the best transposition of European legislations, according to the May scoreboard published today.

The scoreboard benchmarks member states’ efforts in implementing the EU’s 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.

Malta’s transposition deficit as of May stood at 0.4%, higher than the EU average of 0.7%.

The number of pending directives increased by four, all concerning financial services. Two of them have since been transposed, while the other two are currently in the process of being adopted through Parliament.

Deputy prime minister Louis Grech said that the directives require a complex transposition process, that took a long time because Malta “always ensures correct transposition of EU legislation”.   

Indeed, Grech pointed out that Malta is the only EU member state with a perfect score of 0.0% compliance deficit, which means that Malta currently has no incorrectly transposed directives.

“This good result shows the Maltese government’s commitment to keep its place amongst the top performers in the EU,” he said.