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This paper presents and critically assessed the implementation of the executive state model in Greek law-making, and identifies the elements of the model that are transferable elsewhere. The first four years of extensive legislative reforms in application of the executive state model have produced tangible innovations fertile to better law-making. But the real challenge, the change of legislative mentality, resists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to evaluate the advances made in the regulatory framework for the quality of legislation produced by the European Union after the Lisbon Treaty and to prove that the problems identified previously continue to plague European Union citizens and businesses alike. In order to prove this hypothesis, I will briefly present the regulatory framework for legislative quality. I will identify the elements of the concept of quality at a universal level and then I will evaluate the extent to which the recent post-Lisbon Smart Regulation initiative promotes quality of legislation in the European Union. Although elements of my analysis have been presented in other fora, the article is original in its hypothesis, methodology, and use of already published material as empirical data leading to an original conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to offer legislative drafters guidance as to the choices open to them in the unenviable task of effectively introducing foreign legal definitions to domestic legislation by use of legal transplants: where it comes to better legislative definitions, it is reasonable to expect that many legal transplants will be based on comparative concepts and that their formulation and application will be part of the process of implementing legal reform. However, at least three scenarios for legal transplants and three versions of comparative concepts have to be distinguished. To reduce possible eclecticism, the paper discusses three scenarios for legal transplants, elaborates on the three versions of comparative concepts, and investigates the version that is most appropriate for one or more scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to offer legislative drafters guidance as to the choices open to them in the unenviable task of effectively introducing foreign legal defini-tions to domestic legislation by use of legal transplants: where it comes to better legislative definitions, it is reasonable to expect that many legal transplants will be based on comparative concepts and that their formulation and application will be part of the process of implementing legal reform. However, at least three sce-narios for legal transplants and three versions of comparative concepts have to be distinguished. To reduce possible eclecticism, the paper discusses three scenarios for legal transplants, elaborates on the three versions of comparative concepts, and investigates the version that is most appropriate for one or more scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market (SLIM) initiative launched by the European Commission on May 8, 1996. The contents of the guidelines for the quality of drafting agreed upon by the Commission, Council and the Parliament are cited. The small number of reform proposals realised under SLIM is attributed to the long process needed for studying, vetting and voting of European Union (EU) legislative texts. The Electro-Magnetic Compatibility Directive is cited as one of the indications of its success.