On the implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market
A-10-2025-0151
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection · Rapporteur: Anna-Maja Henriksson
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The report addresses the implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market, focusing on reducing administrative burdens, improving enforcement, and boosting competitiveness.¶ It calls for better implementation, simplified rules, and robust enforcement, emphasizing support for SMEs and start-ups, and highlights the role of digitalisation and AI in reducing burdens.¶¶¶ The report urges the Commission to act on recommendations from the Draghi, Letta, and Niinistö reports, and to ensure that simplification does not compromise social, environmental, or consumer protection standards.¶¶
Committee position. The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection proposes a resolution calling for concrete measures to strengthen the single market, reduce administrative burdens, and improve implementation and enforcement of EU rules.¶
Key points
- Calls for removing barriers to growth, reducing compliance costs for SMEs through digital tools and targeted derogations, and enabling larger companies to compete across borders.¶
- Urges the Commission to ensure proportionate legislation, include early review clauses, and establish a methodology for burden reduction and monitoring progress.¶
- Demands high-quality impact assessments for all legislative proposals, including a competitiveness check, and strengthening the Regulatory Scrutiny Board.¶
- Calls for impact assessments on substantial amendments by Parliament and Council, and for effective enforcement of the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making.¶
- Urges the Commission to ensure structured, transparent stakeholder consultations, strengthen SME representation, and establish implementation dialogues.¶
- Calls for clear deadlines for guidelines and enforcement measures, limiting level 2 legislation to technical matters, and ensuring sufficient notice periods.¶
- Highlights the importance of start-ups and scale-ups, suggests regulatory sandboxes, and advocates for EU innovation hubs.¶
- Welcomes the Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification, calls for adequate resources, and urges systematic assessment of streamlining needs.¶
- Calls for full use of enforcement powers, including infringement procedures, and expanding them to address systemic violations.¶
- Encourages strengthening tools like SOLVIT and the Single Market Enforcement Taskforce, and creating national coordination platforms.¶
- Calls for consistent application of the Services Directive, better notification procedures, and addressing territorial supply constraints.¶¶¶
- Urges the Commission to revise the new legislative framework, consider a '28th legal regime' for SMEs, and ensure digital policy coherence.¶¶¶
Who is affected
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups, which face disproportionate administrative burdens and benefit from simplification measures.¶¶
- Businesses operating across borders in the EU, which face barriers from inconsistent implementation and gold-plating.¶
- Consumers, who are affected by market fragmentation and benefit from stronger enforcement and awareness campaigns.¶¶
- National authorities and enforcement bodies, which are urged to cooperate more and harmonise implementation.¶
Figures and deadlines
- 25% reduction in administrative costs for all companies and 35% for SMEs by 2029.¶
- 99% of EU businesses are SMEs, small mid-caps, and start-ups.¶
- Internal market barriers equivalent to a 45% tariff on manufacturing and a 110% tariff on services.¶
- Territorial supply constraints cost EU consumers more than EUR 14 billion a year.¶