Press Release: Internal Market Information (IMI) system: Commission acts to make Single Market deliver better for business and citizens

The Commission is taking action to help citizens and businesses to benefit fully from the opportunities offered by the Single Market by publishing a strategy to improve governance of the single market. The expansion of the Internal Market Information (IMI) system to other areas of EU law such as, potentially, gambling and e-commerce will help to achieve this. IMI is a multilingual online application that allows national, regional and local authorities to communicate quickly and easily with their counterparts elsewhere in the EU. By December 2010, nearly 6000 authorities were using this system where they can assist each other in order to, for example, process applications from foreign professionals, grant permissions or check that cross-border service providers comply with security obligations.

European Commission: Memo/11/99: Internal Market Information (IMI) System: FAQs http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/99&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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