Best Result Ever

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