Przyczyny opóźnień w transpozycji dyrektyw europejskich do polskiego porządku prawnego w świetle analizy ilościowej krajowego procesu legislacyjnego
Causes of delays in the transposition of European directives into the Polish legal system – a quantitative analysis of the national lawmaking process

Summary/Abstract: According to the Commission’s internal market scorecards, Poland is among the countries having highest compliance deficits in the European Union, in part due to repeated and substantial delays in implementing EU directives. Using a comprehensive database of implementing acts introduced in the Polish parliament since the country’s accession in 2004, we conduct a quantitative analysis of the timing of the governmental and parliamentary legislative processes to test whether those delays are introduced by the executive or the legislative branch. We conclude that while implementing legislation is usually enacted into law faster than ordinary legislation, it is introduced too late to permit successful implementation before applicable deadline. Indeed, most of the bills implementing EU directives are already overdue when introduced. These results suggest that the government – rather than the parliament – appears to be responsible for the delays, and that the governmental performance in this respect deteriorates rapidly (delays were smallest immediately after accession). We also find that numerous aspects of the problem – such as the role of political controversies in delaying implementing bills – require further research.

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