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Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market

TA-10-2025-0197 · P10_TA(2025)0197 · PE769.908

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Parliament's resolution on implementing and streamlining EU internal market rules calls for reducing administrative burdens, improving enforcement, and boosting competitiveness. It urges the Commission to simplify legislation, conduct impact assessments, and strengthen stakeholder consultation, while upholding high standards. It addresses services integration, professional qualifications, reporting burdens, digital tools, and consumer protection, among other themes.

Key points

  1. Calls for removing barriers, reducing compliance costs for SMEs, and mobilising private investment to boost competitiveness.
  2. Demands that the Commission act on Draghi, Letta, and Niinistö report recommendations with concrete measures and timelines.
  3. Urges Member States to address gold-plating and ensure transparent, timely implementation of EU laws.
  4. Asks the Commission to include early review clauses in legislation and establish a methodology for burden reduction.
  5. Calls for impact assessments on all legislative proposals, including competitiveness checks and SME impact.
  6. Urges the Commission to improve stakeholder consultations, including for SMEs and civil society.
  7. Calls for mechanisms to set deadlines for guidelines and limit level 2 legislation to technical matters.
  8. Encourages regulatory sandboxes and EU innovation hubs to support start-ups and scale-ups.
  9. Calls for stronger enforcement, including infringement procedures, to address systemic violations.
  10. Urges action on services integration, notification procedures, and territorial supply constraints.
  11. Calls for digital tools like a one-stop shop and digital reporting to reduce administrative burdens.
  12. Stresses maintaining high consumer protection standards and enforcing digital rules.

Who is affected

  • Businesses, especially SMEs and start-ups, will face fewer administrative burdens and clearer rules.
  • Member States must improve implementation, reduce gold-plating, and apply notification procedures.
  • Consumers may benefit from better enforcement and awareness campaigns.

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 110% on services.
  • Territorial supply constraints cost EU consumers more than EUR 14 billion a year.