Brussels, 05/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - The member states are improving their transposition of EU directives in terms of timing, implementation and application. A Single Market Scoreboard published by the European Commission on Thursday also notes positive trends in terms of infringements. For the first time, this year's Scoreboard covers governance tools, such as SOLVIT and IMI.
The Single Market Scoreboard 2012/2013 incorporates comprehensive reports on 13 governance tools including monitoring the correct transposition of EU directives, analysis of infringement proceedings, administrative cooperation networks and various information and problem-solving services.
In a press release, the Commission says that a number of barriers remain, particularly for social security, recognition of professional qualifications, vehicle registration and residency rights.
The scoreboard says that the percentage of internal market directives that have not been transposed into national law in time stands at 0.6 % for the last six months and the average number of open cases per country has fallen slightly, from 31 to 30. The Commission says this is “a good result”.
For online problem-solving network SOLVIT dealing with misapplication of internal market rules, 89% of disputes are settled out-of-court and the time taken to settle the disputes has reduced. Portugal and the United Kingdom have the best results in this domain.
The Your Europe system is doing well, with more hits on the website than EURES, but more work is needed on establishing one-stop-shops, particularly in Bulgaria. For the Internal Market Information System (IMI), national civil services need to speed up the time it takes them to respond. The best-performing countries in this field are Estonia, Malta and Spain. (SP/transl.fl)