Annexes to COM(2023)162 - Single Market at 30

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dossier COM(2023)162 - Single Market at 30.
document COM(2023)162
date March 16, 2023
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41 The Commission is preparing the ground for an Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) with Ukraine. The Commission is engaged in preparatory work with Moldova as well, with the intention of starting negotiations for an ACAA.

42 In order to strengthen the Single Market on the ground, a significant funding package of EUR 4.2 billion – the Single Market Programme – was adopted to support a variety of actions from improving market surveillance to providing citizens and businesses with problem-solving support, supporting SMEs’ competitiveness and improving food safety.

43COVID-19 vaccines | European Medicines Agency (europa.eu).

44 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR).

45 An EU Strategy on Standardisation - Setting global standards in support of a resilient, green and digital EU single market, COM(2022)31.

46 Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market.

47 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market, COM(2022) 453 final.

48 COM(2023)168

49 See also recent Commission Communication on Enforcing EU law for a Europe that delivers (COM(2022)518 final).

50 Single Market Scoreboard 2022.

This analysis considers 997 directives and 5669 regulations to ensure the functioning of the Single Market, in force on 1 December 2021.

51 See footnotes 65 to 68 for details on enforcement deficit targets.

52 Single Market Scoreboard 2022.

53 Single Market Scoreboard 2022.

54 As described in the Annex 1 : Stocktaking of the implementation of the 2020 Single Market Enforcement Action Plan, Annual Single Market Report 2023. All actions of the long term Action Plan for better implementation and enforcement of single market rules have been implemented or launched.

55 Free movement of services: Commission takes action (europa.eu).

56 See “30 years of single market – taking stock and looking ahead”, European Commission 2022.

57 https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/single-market-task-force-continues-tackle-barriers-single-market-2022-11-29_en.

58 The Industrial Forum brings together Member States, businesses of all sizes, trade unions and civil society and it acts as a sounding board for stakeholders and showcases the state of the European competitiveness. The Forum also counts on a dedicated taskforce that is tasked with assessing the state of the Single Market. It also actively contributes to Transition Pathways, which also take into account regulatory challenges for the twin transitions and resilience of Europe’s industry. It acts as a sounding board but also as a source of information on issues that industry is facing and how to address them. The Forum meets in plenary 2-3 times a year, most recently 7 March 2023.

59 According to the Single Market Scoreboard, the latest score on the provision of digital public services for businesses was very high (around 80 or more) for two thirds of Member States. By contrast, in 2022, 19 out of 27 Member States showed higher public payment delays by public authorities than in 2019. Overall, the public procurement indicators suggest a stable situation, with slight improvement. However, there is scope for the further progress in several Member States, in areas such as the share of public procurement tenders with a single bidder and the share of direct awards. On professional services, the scoreboard shows little if any progress between 2007 and 2021 with respect to reducing regulatory barriers for entry to and the exercise of professions. Legal services remain the most protected profession in the Single Market.

60 National SOLVIT centres - European Commission (europa.eu).

61 SOLVIT’s Helping Hand in the Single Market: celebrating 20 years https://ec.europa.eu/solvit/_docs/2022/anniversary_report_web_en.pdf.

62 Single market transparency directive – EUR-Lex (europa.eu).

63 Its role should be adapted to different governance systems, e.g. in federal systems, or where there is significant decentralisation.

64 By early 2023 and following consultations and a feasibility study, 20 Member States agreed to work towards a common form as announced in the Industrial Strategy Update 2021.

65 1% transposition deficit (percentage of Single Market directives not yet completely notified to the Commission) target established by the European Council, Brussels 8-9 March 2007, and 0% transposition target for directives whose implementation is more than two years overdue established by the European Council, Barcelona 15-16 March 2002.

66 0.5% transposition deficit target proposed by the Commission in the Single Market Act COM/2011/0206

67 0% transposition target for directives whose implementation is more than two years overdue established by the European Council, Barcelona 15-16 March 2002

68 0.5 conformity deficit targets proposed by the Commission in the Single Market Act COM/2011/0206

69 Communication from the Commission — EU law: Better results through better application C/2016/8600

70 COM(2023) 148 final

71 C(2023) 1696

72 To date, only a small fraction of data, from only 20% of all tenders, is available and searchable for analysis in one place, the EU database Tenders Electronic Daily (TED). 80% of the data, on the other hand, is spread in different formats and multiple systems across the Member States.

73 European Health Data Space (europa.eu).

74 https://www.epo.org/service-support/publications.html?pubid=162#tab3.

75 This pass complements the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information system (EESSI), which enables exchanges between authorities, by facilitating the interactions and exchanges between mobile citizens, social security institutions and other relevant public administrations (e.g. labour inspectorates and health care providers), making real-time verification of social security entitlements possible, including by those actors that do not have access to the EESSI system.

76 See (COM(2022)701 final).

https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/taxation-1/value-added-tax-vat/vat-digital-age_en.

77Another example of strengthened cooperation of customs and market surveillance authorities is the recently adopted EU Single Window Environment for Customs Regulation, which ensures national customs systems interconnection: Regulation (EU) 2022/2399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 establishing the European Union Single Window Environment for Customs and amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, OJ L 317, 9.12.2022, p. 1.

78 Annual Single Market Report 2023, p. 23.

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