A deterioration of 2.67 points compared to 2020 was noted by the quality of legislation in our country in 2021, according to the Legislation Quality Index published by Today is the fourth year of the Center for Humanitarian Research (KEFIM).

Despite a noticeable decline, the quality of legislation in 2021 is slightly better than in 2019 (+0.09 points), and in 2018 (+0.21 points) and 3.2 points better than in 2017 G.

Main Findings of the Legislative Quality Index 2021

On positive developments:

• The number of overdue amendments passed by law has been reduced to 0.5 in 2021 from 2.1 in 2020.
• The number of amendments submitted on the same day they were voted has been significantly reduced to 17 in 2021 from 50 in 2020.
• The percentage of laws adopted in the ordinary way, rather than in urgent and emergency procedures, increased significantly, to 94% in 2021 from 81% in 2020.
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In negative events:

• In 2021, the problem of polynomialism continued: more than 11,000 pages of laws were passed in a year. It will take the average person 46 business days just to read the 2021 legislative documents.
  2 out of 10 laws of 2021 have not been submitted for public discussion.
• Only 1 out of 5 laws in 2021 provides for simplification of procedures, and there is little quantitative data on the effects of law decrees.
• The number and percentage of adopted amendments that are not related to the main subject of the law have been increased to 82.8% in 2021 from 72.3% in 2020.
• Only 18% of the powers to issue ministerial decisions were activated within 6 months of the law being passed, which is 5 percentage points worse than in 2020.

The best and worst law of 2021:

Law of 2021 with the highest overall score in the Index (69.11/100) – 4765 “Modernization of the system of recruitment in the public sector and strengthening of the Supreme Council for the Selection of Personnel (SSC) and other provisions”, submitted to Parliament by the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Mavroudis Voridis.

The 2021 law with the lowest overall score in the Index (37.5/100) is 4790 Emergency Measures to Protect Public Health from the Continued Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Development, Social Protection and the Reopening of the Courts. and other issues”, presented to Parliament by the then Minister of Health, Mr. Vasilis Kikilia.
This year the study was conducted with the legal support of the NOMOS Legal Information Bank.