Press Release: Making the Internal Market work: Member States need to pursue efforts to make the internal market a reality

Member States still perform well in writing Internal Market rules into national law, but the positive trend of recent years has stalled according to the European Commission's latest Internal Market Scoreboard. On average 0.9% of Internal Market Directives for which the implementation deadline has passed are not currently written into national law, up from 0.7% in March 2010. This means that Member States are still in line, but only just, with the 1.0% target set by Heads of State and Government in 2007. As regards application of EU law, there has been a slight fall in the number of infringements compared to six months ago. Recognising the importance of citizens' mobility in the Internal Market, a section of the scoreboard focuses on the effective application of EU rules in the area of mutual recognition of professional qualifications.