Press Release: Internal Market Scoreboard: Best result ever

Member States have never performed better in implementing agreed Internal Market rules into national law, according to the European Commission’s latest Internal Market Scoreboard. On average only 1.2% of Internal Market Directives for which the implementation deadline has passed are not currently written into national law, down from 1.9% in July 2006 (IP/06/1008). This means that for the first time the average deficit is below the 1.5% interim target agreed by Heads of State in 2001. All Member States have made progress, with 21 Member States either below or very close to the 1.5% target. This is due in large part to Member States' continued efforts to implement and exchange best practices, as set out in a 2004 Commission Recommendation. Nevertheless, Member States too often fail to transpose and apply Internal Market rules correctly: only eight Member States have managed to reduce the number of infringement proceedings against them.

European Commission: DG Communication: SPEECH/07/54 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/54&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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