The European Union must step up the application and enforcement of Single Market law or risk losing ‘credibility and effectiveness’, according to a leaked paper to the EU executive signed by 14 member states.
The paper, obtained by EURACTIV, complains that “a lack of clarity, consistence, inadequate implementation, poor enforcement and lack of compliance undermine the EU’s credibility and effectiveness”.
The document, which was sent to the Commission on Tuesday (21 January), is signed by Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.
Notably, the group does not include Germany, France, Italy or Spain, the bloc’s largest economies.
The paper also calls for the introduction of a new watchdog – a ‘Task Force for Enforcement of Single market legislation’ – to police the enforcement and national compliance with EU law, alongside other tools such as impact assessment to scoreboards and online toolkits. [...]
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