N		- observation number 
country		- country of transposition
regio		- regionalism score (Marks et al. 2008)
dir		- CELEX code of the directive
dayslost	- days without a government within the transposition period (own coding)
datea1		- date of national transposition (first transposition measure reported)
dateal		- date of national transposition (the last transposition measure reported)
dead		- transposition deadline 
dateadopt	- date of adoption of the directive
observation	- date of final observation (data collection)	
newm		- new member state or not
trans		- transposition time in days (difference between 'dateal'/'observation' and 'dateadopt')
completed	- transposition completed within the observation period	
nacts		- number of transposing acts
typeact		- type of transposing acts (law, government decree, ordinance)
dumlaw		- dummy for whether a law was used in the transposition (law =1 )
newact		- dummy for whether a new legal acts was used in the transposition (new = 1)
nmin		- number of ministries involved in the transposition
misfit		- legal misfit (categorical variable). own coding, see paper for details
dummisfit	- legal misfit recoded as a binary variable
discretion	- discretion (own coding, see paper for details)
goveff		- Government effectiveness for 2006 (WB Governance indicators)
timedead	- remaining time to transposition deadline in days