Ireland applying EU laws

IRELAND’S record of adopting EU law has improved and is close to reaching the target promised by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

The annual results for the EU’s Internal Market Scoreboard - the list of where countries stand on transposing EU market law into national law - were released by Commissioner Charlie McCreevy.

The target agreed by EU leaders is to have 98.5% of outstanding laws written into national law by next year. The average is currently 98.4% - 1.6% outstanding which is down from 1.9% last July.