Between Compliance and Control: National Strategies to Mitigate Gold-Plating in Iceland and Sweden
This thesis examines how Iceland and Sweden justify and institutionalise gold-plating mitigation strategies in the transposition of EU and EEA law. Gold-plating, where national implementation exceeds EU minimum requirements, is often framed as a regulatory problem. At the same time, gold-plating mitigation strategies may constrain national discretion and reflect underlying political, ideological,
