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This paper proposes a theoretical concept that is appropriate to analyse and understand the role of the government bureaucracy in transposing European Union law. The theoretical concept is based on the assumption that both formal and informal structures of bureaucratic organisations have an impact on public decision making behaviour. On the basis of two recent theoretical approaches that will enable us to analyse both structural and informal features of government bureaucracies, namely the policy capacity concept and the administrative styles concept, I will propose a theoretical concept that combines elements of both
approaches within one concept. The concept enables us ta analyse and understand the role of public administrations at the stage of implementation of public policies and derive hypotheses on the influence of administrative patterns of policy-making on transposing European Union law at the Member State level.
The paper is part of my PhD-project "Financial Regulation and the Implementation of EU directives in the European Union Member States", which examines the administrative procedures at the Member State level in the transposition of directives. The theoretical concept presented is supposed to help us analyse and
understand the impact of the government bureaucracy on the transposition of EU directives, especially with regard to the customisation of EU directives.
The European Semester is an instrument for coordinating and monitoring the economic and fiscal policies of the EU member states. However, since the European Commission explicitly emphasizes the importance of the countries’ public administration for economic growth, it seems reasonable to assume that the member states’ bureaucracy will also be addressed within the framework of the European Semester. This article therefore examines the admi-nistrative policy ideas and reform proposals of the European Commission by analysing the annual country-specific recommendations addressed to all EU member states between 2011 and 2019 under the European Semester. Applying quantitative text analysis to all CSRs during the investigation period shows that the European Semester is used to a considerable extent to propose administrative reforms to the Member States. Out of the 466 reform proposals identified, more than half were related to either the management of public finances or the administrative structure in the member states. On the average (without Greece), each country received 17,3 reform proposals with administrative policy implications over the entire period. However, the differences between the EU member states are significant, as can be seen from the distribution of the reform proposals.
Die nationale Koordination in europäisierten Politikfeldern gehört zweifelsohne zu jenen Bereichen, in denen die ministeriellen Organisationsstrukturen und Koordinationsmechanismen mit einer zunehmenden Komplexität der alltäglichen Problemstellungen konfrontiert sind. Dies stellt das politisch-administrative System der bundesdeutsche Ministerialbürokratie im zunehmend von der EU bestimmten Tagesgeschäft vor die Herausforderung, trotz veränderter Rah-menbedingungen Kohärenz und Konsistenz sowohl bei der Formulierung europapolitischer Positionen als auch der Umsetzung europäischen Rechts an den Tag zu legen.
In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Strukturen und administrativen Verfahrensweisen bei der Implementation von EU-Recht in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland analysiert. Zu diesem Zweck werden zum einen die Erkenntnisse aus leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Ministerialbeamten aus dem BMI sowie BMAS zum Ablauf der administrativen Verfahrensweisen bei der Transposition von EU-Richtlinien dargestellt und zum anderen die Ergebnisse einer Befragung zur personellen Ausstattung der Bundesministerien präsentiert. Der Beitrag kommt zu dem Er-gebnis, die Organisationsstrukturen und administrativen Verfahrensweisen innerhalb der deutschen Ministerialverwaltung bei der Umsetzung von EU-Recht weitgehend einem dezentralen Koordinationsmuster entsprechen.
