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Abstract
Due to concerns about the government's debt, the European Commission issued the Late Payments Directive (LPD) to discourage the culture of late payments that threatens their financial sustainability. Despite the intention to hold member states accountable for public entities' payment behaviour, the LPD did not specify the methodology for performance feedback.
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