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Country data: Iceland

Transposition and Infringements (Iceland)

Indicators on Single Market DirectivesDec. 2024EEA EFTA averageRankingTrend
Transposition deficit (percentage of all directives not transposed)2.1%1.3%3
Overdue directives1710
Long-overdue directives (> 2 years)422=
Average delay in transposing directives (in months)15.914.02
Conformity deficit (percentage of all directives transposed incorrectly)0.1%0.0%3=
Indicators on Single Market Infringement ProceedingsDec. 2024EEA EFTA averageRankingTrend
Number of pending infringement proceedings23143
Problematic sectors
  • Transport (4 cases)
  • Miscellaneous goods TBT (4 cases)
  • Veterinary issues (3 cases)
Average duration of infringement proceedings (in months)44.833.13
Average time taken to comply with Court rulings (in months)31.046.41=

Internal Market Information System (Iceland)

Technical regulations information system (Iceland)

SOLVIT (Iceland)

Caseload
Submitted cases: 2 (1 in 2023)
Received cases: 1 (0 in 2023)
Cases not accepted: 5 (2 in 2023)

Resolution rate: 100% (not applicable in 2023)

Handling time (as home centre)
Reply in 7 days: 100% (0% in 2023)
Cases prepared in 30 days: 100% (0% in 2023)
Solutions accepted within 7 days: 50% (0% in 2023)
Cases not accepted within 30 days: 20% (100% in 2023)

Handling time (as lead centre)
Cases accepted within 7 days: 0% (0% in 2023)
Cases closed within 10 weeks: 0% (0% in 2023)

Staffing level
Sufficient

Access to public procurement (Iceland)

Indicator2023EU average
Single bidder

12%

38%

No calls for bids

1%

6%

Publication rate (value advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily, in % of GDP)

n/a

5.84%

Cooperative procurement (proportion of procedures with more than one buyer)

1%

7%

Award criteria (proportion of procedures awarded to cheapest bid)

94%

56%

Decision speed (days)

49 

84 

SME contractors

89%

58%

SME bids

100%

66%

Procedures divided into lots

7%

30%

Missing calls for bids

0%

1%

Missing seller registration numbers

16%

47%

Missing buyer registration numbers

4%

36%

Note: A typical (mid-ranking) EU country is used for the EU average for all indicators except the publication rate. Due to delays in data availability, publication rate results are based on 2022 data.

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