Over the next two years, the Commission plans to tackle the ‘terrible ten’ areas of the single market, according to a provisional version of the ‘Strategy for a Single, Simple and Seamless Market’, which it is due to publish on 25 May and a copy of which has been obtained by Agence Europe. These include the slow pace of standardisation in the EU, barriers to the provision of services and disparate rules on product labelling and packaging.
In its communication of around 20 pages,...