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Country data: Iceland

Transposition and Infringements (Iceland)

Transposition

INDICATORS

Dec.
2022

EEA EFTA
average

Ranking

Trend

Transposition deficit (percentage of all directives not transposed)

1.0%

1.0%

2

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Overdue directives

8

8

Long-overdue directives (> 2 years)

0

1

1

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Average delay in transposing directives (in months)

10.1

13.1

1

👽

Conformity deficit (percentage of all directives transposed incorrectly)

0.1%

0.0%

3

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Infringements

INDICATORS

Dec.
2022

EEA EFTA
average

Ranking

Trend

Number of pending infringement proceedings

26

17

3

👿

Problematic sectors

  • Transport (7 cases)
  • Right of establishment (3 cases)
  • Miscellaneous goods (3 cases)

Average duration of infringement proceedings (in months)

33.2

32.7

2

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Average time taken to comply with Court rulings (in months)

40.5

52.6

1

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Internal Market Information System (Iceland)

Performance – Iceland performed very well.

  • Results for four indicators were above the EEA average with performance improving, sometimes significantly, on all indicators.
  • Performance on requests accepted within 1 week remains below the EEA average, being the second worst among the Member States.
  • Iceland scored 100% in both satisfaction related surveys.
Requests accepted within one week (%)
 
Requests answered by the deadline agreed in IMI (%)
 
Satisfaction with timeliness of replies - as rated by counterparts (%)
 
Satisfaction with efforts made - as rated by counterparts (%)
 
Speed in answering requests (days)
 

Technical regulations information system (Iceland)

 

SOLVIT (Iceland)

  • Caseload
    Submitted cases: 2 (1 in 2021)
    Received cases: 3 (2 in 2021)

Cases not accepted: 4 (5 in 2021)

  • Resolution rate: 68% (50% in 2021)
  • Handling time (as home centre)
    Reply within 7 days: 50% (100% in 2021) – good
    Cases prepared within 30 days: 100% (100% in 2021) – very good
    Solutions accepted within 7 days: 50% (100% in 2021 ) – good

Cases not accepted within 30 days: 25% (0% in 2021) – poor

  • Handling time (as lead centre)
    Cases accepted within 7 days: 67% (100% in 2021) – good
    Cases closed in 10 weeks: 33% (0% in 2021) – poor
  • Staffing level
    sufficient

Access to public procurement (Iceland)

Indicator 2021 EU average
Single bidder 7% 25%
No calls for bids 7% 6%
Publication rate (value advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily, in % of GDP) n/a 5.9%
Cooperative procurement (proportion of procedures with more than one buyer) 1% 5%
Award criteria (proportion of procedures awarded to cheapest bid) 92% 64%
Decision speed (days) 43   99  
SME contractors 82% 61%
SME bids 98% 73%
Procedures divided into lots 3% 31%
Missing calls for bids 0% 1%
Missing seller registration numbers 42% 29%
Missing buyer registration numbers 0% 11%

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 2020 data.

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