The latest edition of the "Internal Market Scoreboard" released by the European Commission in February 2009 shows that Cyprus has made progress in reducing its "transposition deficit" – the number of European Directives yet to be transposed into national law. At December 2008 the number of outstanding Directives had been reduced to 27, compared with 29 six months earlier. Furthermore the number of long overdue directives was reduced from three to zero during the second half of 2008.
Nevertheless, Cyprus remains above the 1.5% target figure. As the target is to be reduced to 1% from 2009, considerable effort will be needed to bring performance into line with the new target.
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