Press Release: Internal Market Scoreboard: Member States have improved their performance

At this time of crisis, the Single Market has a key role to play in bringing Europe out of economic stagnation. Timely transposition of legislation is a necessary condition for achieving the policy objectives of the directives. The European Commission's Internal Market Scoreboard shows that Member States have made an effort in transposing EU rules into national law.

After the increase recorded in May and November 2011 (1.2%), the European average transposition deficit – the percentage of Internal Market Directives that have not been written into national law in time – is now back to 0.9%, i.e. below the target agreed by the European Heads of State and Government in 2007. In this exercise, sixteen Member States have achieved the 1% target.