Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (‘the IMI Regulation’)

Member State public administrations responsible for applying EU law are increasingly required by EU law to cooperate with their counterparts in other Member States.

To support them in their tasks, the Internal Market Information System (‘IMI’) was designed and developed by the European Commission as a generic, customisable administrative cooperation platform and has been offered as a free service to Member States since 2008. It provides more than 6,000 registered authorities in the 27 Member States and three EEA countries with a fast and secure communication channel for cross-border information exchange with their counterparts, effectively overcoming barriers due to different languages and administrative structures.

IMI is currently used for the exchange of information pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (‘the Professional Qualifications Directive’) and Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (‘the Services Directive’). In 2010, some 2,000 requests for information were exchanged through IMI.

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