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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2542(RSP))

On the old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market

B-10-2025-0246

on behalf of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection · Rapporteur: Anna Cavazzini

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This resolution addresses old and new challenges in the EU single market, calling for reforms to boost competitiveness, reduce administrative burdens, and improve enforcement. It urges action on services, digital commerce, product rules, and consumer protection, including updates to the New Legislative Framework and Digital Fairness Act. It stresses the need for stronger market surveillance, customs controls, and enforcement against unfair practices, while supporting sustainability and strategic autonomy.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission and Member States to eliminate unjustified obstacles to free movement of goods and services while ensuring high consumer protection.
  2. Urges further action in the services sector, noting it accounts for three quarters of EU GDP and two thirds of employment, and calls for ambitious targets in the single market strategy.
  3. Welcomes the proposal for a public interface for posting workers and calls for a single declaration portal and digitalisation of A1 forms.
  4. Calls for an update to the New Legislative Framework to streamline product rules, promote digitalisation, and simplify compliance, including use of Digital Product Passports.
  5. Calls for simplified EU rules and reduced administrative burdens, especially for SMEs, and for Member States to prevent actions compromising the level playing field.
  6. Calls for improved enforcement mechanisms, including harmonised rules on checks and joint inspections, and for Member States to increase capacity of market surveillance and customs authorities.
  7. Calls on the Commission to propose measures against territorial supply constraints and to investigate differentiated inflation of basic goods.
  8. Calls for empowering consumers to exercise passenger rights through national enforcement bodies with harmonised powers.
  9. Calls for proper enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, and for the AI Act to maintain a risk-based approach.
  10. Calls for the Digital Fairness Act to address digital addiction, online gambling, protection of minors, and persuasive technologies like dark patterns.
  11. Calls for a reinforced market surveillance framework, revision of the Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation, and adoption of the revised Union Customs Code by 2026.
  12. Calls for measures against shrinkflation and greenwashing, and for strengthening the second-hand market and EU-wide labelling schemes.

Who is affected

  • European businesses, especially SMEs, will face reduced administrative burdens and simplified rules.
  • Consumers will benefit from stronger protection against unfair practices and enhanced transparency.
  • National authorities, including market surveillance and customs, will need more resources and capacity.
  • Online platforms and e-commerce traders will face stricter enforcement of digital rules and consumer protection.

Figures and deadlines

  • The single market comprises nearly 450 million citizens and 23 million businesses, generating EUR 17 trillion GDP.
  • Services account for three quarters of EU GDP, two thirds of employment, and create 9 out of 10 new jobs.
  • The European Accessibility Act becomes applicable on 28 June 2025.
  • The new single market strategy is scheduled for June 2025, the 2030 consumer agenda for end of 2025, and the Digital Fairness Act for 2026.