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Institutional Performance and Compliance with EU Law: Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia

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This article compares the performance of state institutions and compliance with EU law in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. The public institutions highlighted are of crucial relevance when it comes to enforcing EU social standards and include the court and legal systems as well as labour inspectorates and equal treatment authorities. Expert and practitioner assessments point to major shortcomings in their institutional performance. The procedural compliance pattern to which these shortcomings give rise closely resembles that found by previous studies in some Western European countries, notably Ireland and Italy. Thus, the four countries examined here fall within a ‘world of dead letters’ as far as their compliance with EU law is concerned. In this ‘world’, EU directives tend to be transposed in a politicised mode (although so far, this happened rather timely and correctly) and there is frequent non-compliance at the later stages of monitoring and enforcement.

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  • Falkner, Gerda, 2010. "Institutional Performance and Compliance with EU Law: Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(1), pages 101-116, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:30:y:2010:i:01:p:101-116_99
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    1. Kati Orru & Henry Rothstein, 2015. "Not ‘Dead Letters’, Just ‘Blind Eyes’: The Europeanisation of Drinking Water Risk Regulation in Estonia and Lithuania," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 47(2), pages 356-372, February.
    2. Dan Marek & Michael Baun & Marcin DÄ…browski, 2017. "The challenge of implementing European Union environmental law in the new member states: The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in the Czech Republic and Poland," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(6), pages 1117-1135, September.
    3. Tomáš Malatinec, 2017. "Legislative framework of green public procurement and Europeanisation of the Slovak practice," Juridical Tribune - Review of Comparative and International Law, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, vol. 7(Special), pages 95-107, October.
    4. Gerda Falkner, 2013. "The JCMS Annual Review Lecture Is the European Union Losing Its Credibility?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51, pages 13-30, September.

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