Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe

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Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe

Toshkov, D.D.

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Toshkov, D. D. (2009, March 25). Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe. Between politics and administration: Compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. Retrieved from

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Table 1.1 Overview of the research design ... 13

Table 2.1 Negotiation chapters and derogations/transitional periods agreed ... 23

Table 2.2 Coordination councils for European integration (EI) in CEE ... 28

Table 2.3 Location of the main EU coordination unit in the government structure ... 30

Table 4.1 Expected transposition patterns ... 73

Table 4.2 Hypotheses ... 75

Table 5.1 Non-transposition rate in CEE (number of non-transposed directives) ... 83

Table 5.2 Multivariate regressions of transposition deficit ... 90

Table 6.1 Distribution of the dependent variable (timely transposition) ... 99

Table 6.2 Explaining on-time transposition: a logistic regression model ... 104

Table 7.1 Infringement procedures against the member states (2004-2006). ... 117

Table 7.2 Different stages of the infringement procedures reached (2004-2006). ... 118

Table 7.3. Number of infringement procedures in selected subsectors and countries.. 121

Table 7.4 Case-selection strategy ... 122

Table 8.1 Infringement procedures in regard to the Telecom Package ... 127

Table 8.2 Transposition delay in CEE in regard to the telecom package ... 128

Table 8.3 Content analysis of the Telecom Package transposition. ... 139

Table 9.1 Accession negotiation on Chapter 13. Employment and Social Policy ... 145

Table 9.2 Transposition delay in CEE in regard to social policy ... 147

Table 10.1 Transposition delay in CEE in regard to the nature protection legislation . 152 Table 11.1 Findings about the determinants of transposition timeliness ... 163

Table III.1 Cox proportional hazards regression of transposition duration... 184

Table III.2 Cox proportional hazards regression of with clustering. ... 186

Table III.3 Comparing logistic regression and duration models of transposition. ... 186