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Country data: Iceland

Transposition and Infringements (Iceland)

Transposition

INDICATORS ON SINGLE MARKET DIRECTIVESDec. 2023EEA EFTA averageRankingTrend
Transposition deficit (percentage of all directives not transposed)1.6%0.8%3
Overdue directives137
Long-overdue directives (> 2 years)413↓↓
Average delay in transposing directives (in months)13.111.82
Conformity deficit (percentage of all directives transposed incorrectly)0.1%0.1%NA=

Infringements

INDICATORS ON SINGLE MARKET INFRINGEMENT PROCEEDINGSDec. 2023EEA EFTA averageRankingTrend
Number of pending infringement proceedings24153
Problematic sectors
  • Transport (6 cases)
  • Miscellaneous goods (4 cases)
  • Workers (3 cases)
Average duration of infringement proceedings (in months)34.528.23
Average time taken to comply with Court rulings (in months)3147.41↑↑

Internal Market Information System (Iceland)

 

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: 1 (2 in 2022)
Received cases: 0 (3 in 2022)
Cases not accepted: 2 (4 in 2022)

New 90% benchmark for MS to solve problems through their national SOLVIT centre: not applicable 
 

Handling time (as home centre)
Reply in 7 days: 0% (50% in 2022)
Cases prepared in 30 days: 0% (100% in 2022)
Solutions accepted within 7 days: 0% (50% in 2022) 
Cases not accepted within 30 days: 100% (25% in 2022) 


Handling time (as lead centre)
Cases accepted within 7 days: not applicable (67% in 2022)
Cases closed within 10 weeks: not applicable (33% in 2022)

Staffing level
Sufficient

 

Access to public procurement (Iceland)

Indicator2022EU average
Single bidder14%37%
No calls for bids3%7%
Publication rate (value advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily, in % of GDP)n/a5.84%
Cooperative procurement (proportion of procedures with more than one buyer)1%7%
Award criteria (proportion of procedures awarded to cheapest bid)90%56%
Decision speed (days)53  87  
SME contractors92%56%
SME bids99%66%
Procedures divided into lots6%30%
Missing calls for bids0%1%
Missing seller registration numbers25%46%
Missing buyer registration numbers7%39%

Note: A typical (mid-ranking) EU country is used for the EU average for all indicators except the publication rate. 

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