Single Market scoreboard (VI)

After two years of improvement, efforts by Member States to improve the time it takes to write Internal Market legislation they have all agreed into national law have come to a standstill. According to the latest issue of the Single Market Scoreboard, 13% of all internal market directives (194 out of 1489) that had entered into force by 15.4.00 had still not been implemented by all Member States. Four countries (Greece, Portugal, France and Luxembourg) account for more than 40% of the delays. The Commission has set Member States the objective of brining the implementation deficit to below 1.5% by the end of 2000.

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http://ec.europa.eu/comm/internal_market/en/update/score/index.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/internal_market/en/update/score/index.htm

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