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European Commission publishes the Internal Market scoreboard

Brussels: 1st February 2007

The European Commission publishes the Internal Market scoreboard. The press release IP/07/126, reports that Member States have never performed better in implementing agreed Internal Market rules into national law and that on average that only 1.2% of Internal Market Directives for which the implementation deadline has passed are not currently written into national law an improvement since July 2006 when the average was 1.9%.

Title

Internal Market Scoreboard (22 pages)

References

KM-AD-006001-EN-C December 2006 No 15 bis

Sections

• Main Findings

• Introduction

• State of Transposition of Internal Market Legislation into National Law

  • Average transposition deficit in December 2006 as compared to previous years

  • Performance as against the 1.5% transposition deficit target

  • Reason why all Member States perform better

  • Fragmentation factor

  • Long overdue directives

  • Non-transposed directives date back to …

  • Looking ahead

  • How many infringements for non-communication are underway?

• Infringements for incorrect application of Internal Market rules

  • Number of infringement proceedings per Member State as compared to November 2005

  • Breakdown of infringement proceedings according to their nature per Member State

  • Breakdown of infringement proceedings per sector

  • Infringement resolution speed per Member State