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New KEFiM research shows Greece enacts laws twice the length of EU directives, with consultations squeezed to 16 days and quantitative impact assessments almost non-existent. The findings match warnings in EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which scored EU directives at 66.9/100 and found that weak impact assessments and poor consultation practices undermine regulatory quality across the Union.

KEFiM analysed 190 laws and found systemic flaws: excessive length, tiny consultation windows, and 71% of 2025 laws containing unrelated clauses. The study builds on EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which examined 2022-2024 EU directives and found that overly complex legislation with inconsistent impact assessments creates implementation failures, particularly in countries like Greece with high transposition deficits.

Average Greek law: 60 pages and 54 articles. Average EU directive: 25 pages. Consultation time: 16 days vs 84. Only 10% of Greek RIAs include numbers. KEFiM's findings align with EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which scored EU directives at 66.9/100 and identified sentences twice the recommended length and missing economic analyses as key quality deficits.

KEFiM's new report shows Greek law-making is overly complex, poorly consulted (average 16 days) and rarely backed by proper impact analysis, creating major obstacles for citizens and businesses. The research directly references EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which found that less than half of EU directives are transposed on time and that regulatory complexity creates disproportionate burdens for member states.

Research by KEFiM (EPICENTER member) finds Greek legislation twice the length of EU directives, with consultations six times shorter and only one in ten impact assessments containing actual numbers. The study complements EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which scored EU regulatory quality at 66.9/100 and identified inconsistent impact assessments and poor implementation as EU-wide problems that hit countries like Greece hardest.

KEFiM's latest study shows Greek laws are longer, rushed through short consultations (16 days) and almost never quantify impacts. In 2025 alone, 71.43% of laws included extraneous articles. The findings confirm the legislative bloat identified in EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which evaluated 2022-2024 EU directives and warned that regulatory complexity disproportionately burdens member states with weaker implementation capacity.

KEFiM analysis reveals Greek legislation averages 60 pages and 54 articles versus 25 pages for EU directives. Only 10% of Greek impact assessments quantify consequences and 71% of 2025 laws contained irrelevant clauses. These problems mirror systemic issues identified in EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which found EU directives themselves suffer from excessive complexity and poor implementation rates.

KEFiM's new research on 190 Greek laws (2022–2024) shows the average law is twice as long as EU directives and stuffed with unrelated provisions. Consultations last just 16 days and only 10% of impact assessments include numbers. The findings parallel EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which scored EU directives at 66.9/100 and identified similar transparency and implementation deficits across the Union.