Press Release: Internal Market Scoreboard: Member States need to speed up their efforts

Member States need to speed up their efforts to implement Internal Market rules into national law, according to the European Commission’s latest Internal Market Scoreboard. On average 1.9% of Internal Market Directives for which the implementation deadline has passed are not currently implemented into national law, which is an increase of 0.3% on the best-ever result of 1.6% achieved in November 2005 (see IP/06/192). This means that the positive trend of recent years has stalled and the interim target deficit of 1.5% agreed by Heads of State has not been reached. Progress is also slow in the correct application of Internal Market rules: not a single 'old' Member State has been able to deliver on its promise to reduce infringement proceedings by 50% during the period of 2003-2006.

European Commission: DG Internal Market: Internal Market Scoreboard, No.15, July 2006 http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/score/docs/score15/score15_en.pdf

European Commission: DG Communication: SPEECH/06/464 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/06/464&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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