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Country data: Norway

Transposition and Infringements (Norway)

Transposition

INDICATORS

Dec.
2022

EEA EFTA
average

Ranking

Trend

Transposition deficit (percentage of all directives not transposed)

1.5%

1.0%

3

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Overdue directives

12

8

Long-overdue directives (> 2 years)

1

1

2

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Average delay in transposing directives (in months)

11.2

13.1

2

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Conformity deficit (percentage of all directives transposed incorrectly)

0.0%

0.0%

1

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Infringements

INDICATORS

Dec.
2022

EEA EFTA
average

Ranking

Trend

Number of pending infringement proceedings

24

17

2

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Problematic sectors

  • Social security (7 cases)
  • Transport (5 cases)
  • Persons – other (3 cases)

Average duration of infringement proceedings (in months)

53.3

32.7

3

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

54.8

52.6

2

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Internal Market Information System (Norway)

Performance – Norway performed moderately well.

  • Results for four indicators were below or equal to the EEA average.
  • Requests answered within the deadline and speed in answering requests decreased noticeably.
  • Performance improved significantly on requests accepted within 1 week and both satisfaction related surveys, Norway scoring 100% on the efforts related survey.
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 (Norway)

 

SOLVIT (Norway)

  • Caseload
    Submitted cases: 12 (18 in 2021)
    Received cases: 18 (36 in 2021)

Cases not accepted: 13 (25 in 2021)

  • Resolution rate: 64% (63% in 2021)
  • Handling time (as home centre)
    Reply within 7 days: 92% (81% in 2021) – very good
    Cases prepared within 30 days: 67% (77% in 2021) – good
    Solutions accepted within 7 days: 44% (91% in 2021 ) – poor

Cases not accepted within 30 days: 62% (56% in 2021) – good

  • Handling time (as lead centre)
    Cases accepted within 7 days: 64% (81% in 2021) – good
    Cases closed in 10 weeks: 64% (44% in 2021) – good
  • Staffing level
    urgent action needed

Access to public procurement (Norway)

Indicator 2021 EU average
Single bidder 12% 25%
No calls for bids 1% 6%
Publication rate (value advertised on TED, in % of GDP) n/a 5.9%
Cooperative procurement (proportion of procedures with more than one buyer) 11% 5%
Award criteria (proportion of procedures awarded to cheapest bid) 25% 64%
Decision speed (days) 49   99  
SME contractors 46% 61%
SME bids 48% 73%
Procedures divided into lots 10% 31%
Missing calls for bids 0% 1%
Missing seller registration numbers 46% 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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