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"I am pleased to be able to present the 19th Internal Market Scoreboard, which was produced in July last year. This document shows that Member States are managing increasingly well with the transposition of EU law. Once again, the objective has been achieved – the objective which the Heads of State or Government set themselves so that the average transposition deficit would not exceed 1%. Nevertheless, the number of directives which have not yet been transposed in one or more Member States, in other words, market fragmentation, is still too high. It is over 100 internal market directives. In addition, as many as 22 directives have not been transposed two years after expiry of the deadline for this. The Member States must do even more for the internal market to become something which benefits all Europeans.
At this moment, as I present this report to you, I have in my hand the next scoreboard, the round-number 20th edition, which shows further progress in transposition of EU legislation. The transposition deficit has fallen to 0.7%, so significantly lower than the target set. This is the best result ever. It can be very clearly seen that the work of the European Commission which has resulted in this publication is having a mobilising effect on the Member States. We can warmly congratulate the Commission on this productive, hard work.
Another piece of good news is that market fragmentation has fallen from 6% to 5%. However, 74 directives still have not been transposed in one or more European Union Member States, and this means that barriers, very harmful barriers, continue to affect citizens and entrepreneurs in the internal market. We must eliminate these barriers together.
To this end, the report of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection proposes closer cooperation between all the institutions which are jointly responsible for transposition and stakeholders. We propose holding an annual Single Market Forum, or SIMFO, which would bring together the European institutions, but which would also bring together Member States, members of national parliaments and representatives of business and consumers. A forum of this kind will be an opportunity for the exchange of experience and best practices concerning transposition of EU law, as well as for the preparation of strategies for meeting the challenges which are still ahead of us.
To get rid of those harmful barriers, we are calling on the European Commission to apply an ‘internal market test’ to all new EU legislation, to ensure that new measures do not undermine the four freedoms of the European Union. It is also extremely important to give the citizens clear information about how the internal market operates, bearing in mind that it was precisely for them that the internal market was established 20 years ago.
To present a fuller picture of the development of the internal market, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection is calling for the Internal Market Scoreboard, the SOLVIT Report, the Citizens Signpost Service and the Consumer Markets Scoreboard to be published at the same time.
Finally, I would like to thank everyone who has worked on this report, and to ask fellow Members to vote in favour, because I am sure this will result, in the future, in faster, proper transposition of EU legislation within the framework of the legal order of Member States. Thanks to this, Europeans will encounter fewer barriers in the internal market, and surely this is a matter which is fundamental for the development of our European economy, and also of our European identity."@en1
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