NRP Portugal

The ministries’ commitment to this legal procedure is carried out through variouscoordinatingactivities:• Preparation of continuously updated lists describing the current situation, perministry,ofalldirectivesabouttobetransposed,takingintoaccounttherespectivestate, either because the term for its adoption has elapsed (phase of the EuropeanCommunitiesCourtofLaw,phaseofareasonedopinion,phaseofnotificationofnoncompliances,administrativeletterphase),orbecauseitsadoptionisstillunderway;• Monthly distribution of these lists to the different ministerial cabinets andrepresentatives of the ministries at the Inter‐ministerial Committee for ForeignAffairs;• Regularmeetings–atleasteverytwomonths–withtheinterestedministries,toevaluatethesituationofeachdirectiveintherespectivelist,definingtheobjectivestodecreasethedeficitbytransposingdirectivesandassessingthewayswithwhichtoovercomepossiblesetbackswiththetranspositionproceduresduringthecommunitypre‐litigiousandlitigiousphases;A new methodology was adopted in 2008 within the scope of the Government’scomputernetworksystem.Awarningsystemwascreatedfordeadlinesregardingtheadoption of the legal projects concerning directives. This online system, which isaccessibletotheministerialcabinets,warnsandinformsofthefixeddeadlinesandintermediatephaseuptotheapprovalofthelegislationbytheCouncilofMinisters.Alsowithinthisrealm,intermsoftranspositionandadaptationofcommunitylawstotheinternallegalsystem,theGovernmentwillnowtakeintoconsideration,identifyandquantifytheinformationrequirementsresultingfromthetransposition,inexcess,ofcommunitylaws,normallyknownas‘goldplating’.Ontheotherhand,dueattentionwillalsobegiventobetterconsolidationbetweenthecommunitylawtobeimplementedinthenationallegalsystemandthelegislationalready in force in Portugal, with identical material schemes. In this manner, theGovernmentwillpreventthephenomenonusuallyknownas‘double‐banking’,makingcommunityandnationalschemesmorecoherent,byconsolidatingprinciples.Finally, the Government will ensure control of the transposition of the simplifiedEuropean legislation within the framework of the 2005/2009 simplificationprogramme, the fast tracks initiated in 2007 and the Action Programme to ReduceAdministrative Burdens in the European Union. Obligations to inform will also beidentifiedandquantified,resultingfromthetranspositionofthesimplifiedEuropeanlegislation to the internal legal system within the scope of the said Europeanprogrammesandverificationoftherespectiveoutcome.The Portuguese situation has progressively improved as proved by the resultspublishedinthelatestInternalMarketscoreboards:Scoreboard17,July2008–1.9%deficitcorrespondingtoaglobalfigureof32non‐transposeddirectives;Scoreboard25