Press Release: Internal Market Scoreboard: best result ever – Member States reach new target ahead of deadline

Member States have never performed better in implementing agreed Internal Market rules into national law, according to the European Commission’s latest Internal Market Scoreboard. On average only 1.0% of Internal Market Directives for which the implementation deadline has passed had not been written into national law, down from 1.2% in December 2007. This means that Member States are already in line with the new 1.0% target agreed by Heads of State, which is to be achieved by 2009 at the latest. Eighteen Member States are either at or below the new target, while Bulgaria is the first Member State to achieve a deficit of 0%. Ten Member States achieved their best result so far. The overall trend is also positive as regards correct application of Internal Market rules: 15 Member States have managed to reduce the number of infringement proceedings against them. However, the overall number of these proceedings remains relatively high and it takes too long to resolve them.

European Commission: SPEECH/08/384: Internal Market Scoreboard http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/08/384&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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