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"Mr President, lately, there has been a lot of talk about growth, and how to kick-start Europe’s economies and get them out of their dismal state. But we need to go beyond slogans and spell out how growth can be achieved.
In my report on the internal market scoreboard, which I am presenting here today, I want to transmit a simple but important message. If we really want to achieve growth, let us truly deliver the internal market to citizens, because it is the single most important European investment for growth. To do this, we need to fix what is not working. Where are we failing to deliver? The Commission’s internal market scoreboard shows us that a number of Member States’ efforts to transpose EU single market legislation have been found wanting. Unless Member States step up their efforts to make sure that EU legislation is correctly transposed and fully implemented, there can be no internal market.
Not all is gloom and doom, of course. Some Member States have shown consistent commitment to the internal market. I am happy to see that my own Member State, Malta, once again has the best record amongst Member States for transposing most EU laws on time. Other Member States, such as Estonia, have shown very positive results on all counts in the ‘internal market health check’.
These positive results do not form an exception to the rule; rather, they show that, if there is political will, other Member States can perform well too. Unless more is done to ensure EU legislation is transposed and implemented correctly in the shortest time possible, however, our citizens and enterprises will not be able to reap the benefits of the internal market. Member States therefore need more ambitious targets, and need to stick to their commitments.
For its part, the Commission needs to continue to fulfil its role as the EU’s executive with more vigour. Breaches of EU law must be pursued more swiftly by infringement proceedings. To that end, I am also putting forward, by means of an amendment, a proposal to establish fast-track infringement proceedings through an internal market prosecutor with sufficient independence to act objectively on infringements and institute infringement proceedings free from political pressure.
Building the regulatory framework of the internal market is not, however, the only step towards delivering the internal market for our citizens. That is why my report also focuses on the importance of bringing the internal market directly to our citizens and enterprises. The work of the established network of Commission tools is crucial here, and the success stories of services such as SOLVIT need to be followed up with a commitment to further strengthen these problem-solving services. For citizens are still faced with a complex, and often impersonal, network of services when they have a complaint to make. This makes finding the solution to their problem a problem in itself.
My report therefore calls for further coordination among the Commission’s network of services and stresses the importance of the Your Europe portal as the single online gateway for all citizens’ problems. But we also need to establish ‘live’ points of contact, for example, by having case officers in the Commission’s representative offices in EU capitals to work directly on citizens’ complaints. Lately, we have been asking our citizens to make a lot of sacrifices to ensure that our economies survive the current climate, but we do have the internal market, which is the best way of delivering growth and the economic prosperity that our citizens expect of us."@en1
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