La dernière étude de l'Institut européen d'administration publique (IEAP) "The Institutional Impacts of EU Legislation on Local and Regional Governments, A Case Study of the 199/31/EC Landfill Waste and 2004/18/EC Public Procurement Directives", dénonce notamment le fort recours au droit indicatif: "using s
oft law to regulate very important aspects of the Directive is another important shortcoming: it is not possible to foresee the institutional impact of soft law” (recourir au droit indicatif pour réglementer des aspects très importants de la directive, voilà qui constitue une autre faille importante: il n'est pas possible de prévoir le
...[+++]s incidences institutionnelles du droit indicatif).
The most recent study produced by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), ‘The Institutional Impacts of EU Legislation on Local and Regional Governments, A Case Study of the 1999/31/EC Landfill Waste and 2004/18/EC Public Procurement Directives’, criticises the extensive use of soft law: ‘using soft law to regulate very important aspects of the Directive is another important shortcoming: it is not possible to foresee the institutional impact of soft law’.