Internal market

The internal market of the European Union (EU) is a single market in which the free movement of goods, services, capital and persons is assured, and in which citizens are free to live, work, study and do business.

Since its creation in 1993, the single market has opened itself more to competition, created jobs, and reduced many trade barriers. The Single Market Act​ ​​ was put forward in two parts, in 2011 and 2012, containing proposals to further exploit the opportunities afforded by the single market, in order to boost employment and improve confidence in European business.

• Single market: general rules & strategies
  • Citizen and business empowerment in the EU’s single market
  • The EU’s Internal Market Information System (IMI)
  • Mutual recognition in the EU's single market
  • Modernising and deepening the single market: 12 new growth priorities
  • European standardisation
  • EU single market directives — incorporation in national law
  • Ensuring the single market works for EU consumers
  • Driving European recovery
  • Corporate social responsibility in the EU
• Living and working in the internal market
  • Free movement of workers & citizens' rights
    • Ensuring that EU workers’ rights are respected when working abroad
    • Supplementary pensions - keeping your rights when moving abroad
    • The single digital gateway
    • The principles governing SOLVIT, the problem-solving network for citizens and business
    • Proportionality test for new regulation of professions
    • Free movement of workers
    • Establishing the European Advisory Group for the European Labour Authority
  • Skills & mobility
    • Europass — supporting learning and working in Europe
    • Lifelong learning – European qualifications
    • EURES: Job search services across the EU
  • Social Protection
    • Coordination of social security systems
    • Safeguarding supplementary pension rights
    • European health insurance card
  • Employment for non-EU citizens
    • EU blue card – entry and residence of highly qualified workers (until 2023)
    • Posting of staff from outside the EU
    • Illegal immigration – penalties for employers
    • EU blue card – entry and residence of highly qualified workers (from 2023)
• Agreements — Internal market
  • Agreement with the Swiss Confederation: free movement of persons
  • Agreement on the European Economic Area
  • Product conformity agreements with non-EU countries
    • EU–Australia mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
    • Mutual recognition agreements
    • EU–Switzerland mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
    • EU–United States of America mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
    • EU-Japan mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
    • EU-Israel mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
    • EU–New Zealand mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
    • EU–Canada mutual recognition agreement (MRA)
• Single market for goods
  • Free movement of goods — general rules
    • Accessibility of products and services
    • Obstacles to trade: Rapid Intervention Mechanism
    • Mutual recognition of goods
    • Accreditation and market surveillance
  • Technical harmonisation
    • Harmonisation of civil aviation requirements and procedures
    • Units of measurement in the EU
    • Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
    • Product safety: general rules
    • Measuring instruments and methods of metrological control — common rules
    • Mutual recognition of goods
    • Integration of environmental aspects into European standardisation
  • Market surveillance — ensuring product safety
    • Ensuring the safety of toys in the European Union
    • Market surveillance and compliance of products
    • Machinery & related tools — safety & accuracy
      • Cableway installations for passengers
      • Machinery safety
      • EU rules ensuring that non-automatic weighing instruments are accurate
      • EU rules ensuring that measuring instruments are accurate
      • Equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX)
      • Ensuring lift safety
      • Ensuring safe personal protective equipment for users
    • Medical devices
      • Ensuring the safety and performance of in vitro diagnostic medical devices
      • In vitro diagnostic medical devices
      • Ensuring the safety and performance of medical devices
    • Electrical & electronic devices
      • Appliances burning gaseous fuels (from 2018)
      • Reducing interference between electrical and electronic devices
      • EU rules for the taxation of energy products and electricity
      • Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
      • Electrical safety: low-voltage electrical equipment
    • Transport — aligning systems & safety
      • EU-wide rail safety
      • Safety rules and standards for passenger ships
      • Safety of pressure vessel equipment and material
      • Safer and less polluting equipment on EU ships
      • Reducing air pollution from leisure boats and personal watercraft
      • Joint rules on access to the EU road haulage market
  • Pharmaceutical and cosmetic products
    • Colouring matters for medicinal products (recast)
    • Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
    • Safer cosmetics for EU citizens
    • Safe medicines for Europeans — European Medicines Agency
    • Protection of laboratory animals
    • Good laboratory practice: tests on chemical substances
    • Good laboratory practice: inspection and verification of laboratory studies on all chemicals
    • High safety standards and streamlined procedures for EU clinical trials
    • Duty-free treatment of specified pharmaceutical active ingredients
    • Clinical Trials
    • Medicines for human use
      • Clinical Trials
      • Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
      • Transparency of decisions regulating the prices and the reimbursement of medicinal products in EU countries
      • Safe medicines for Europeans — European Medicines Agency
      • Medicines for rare diseases - orphan drugs
      • Medicines and investigational medicines for human use — safe production
      • Medicinal products for paediatric use
      • Ingredients used in medicines – guidance for importers and distributors
      • Export of generic medicines to developing countries: compulsory licences
      • High safety standards and streamlined procedures for EU clinical trials
      • European Pharmacopoeia - EUR-Lex
      • EU rules on the authorisation, import and production of medicines for humans
      • EU rules for new medical products based on genes and cells
      • Ensuring the safety and performance of medical devices
      • Ensuring the safety and performance of in vitro diagnostic medical devices
    • Medicines for veterinary use
      • Authorisation, import and manufacture of veterinary medicines
      • EU rules on the authorisation, import and production of veterinary medicines
      • Preparation and marketing of medicated feedingstuffs for animals
      • Residues of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin
      • Veterinary medicines — good manufacturing practice
  • Chemical products
    • Dangerous substances & preparations
      • Classification, packaging and labelling of chemical substances and mixtures
      • Safer detergents for European consumers
      • International trade in hazardous chemicals (Rotterdam Convention)
      • Free movement of pyrotechnic articles within the single market
    • Pesticides & fertilisers
      • Fighting water pollution from agricultural nitrates
      • Using sewage sludge in farming
      • Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
      • Safe insect repellents, disinfectants and other industrial chemicals (biocides) in the EU
      • Safe and effective fertilisers on the EU market (from 2022)
      • Safe and effective fertilisers on the EU market
      • Pesticide safety on the EU market
      • Pesticide residues in food and animal feed
      • Pesticides in the EU — ensuring their sustainable use
      • Protecting health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants
    • Risk management — chemicals
      • European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) – how the European Union regulates chemicals
      • Protecting health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants
      • Major accidents involving dangerous chemicals
      • Exposure to chemical agents
      • Good laboratory practice: tests on chemical substances
      • Good laboratory practice: inspection and verification of laboratory studies on all chemicals
    • Managing pollution & waste
      • Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
      • Tackling threats posed by chemicals (Stockholm Convention)
      • Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
      • Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs)
  • Motor vehicles
    • Civil liability insurance for motor vehicles
    • Worldwide harmonised Light-duty vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) and Real Driving Emissions (RDE)
    • Information on tyre fuel efficiency, braking capacity and noise levels
    • Motor vehicles, trailers & other vehicles
      • Charging of heavy goods vehicles: Eurovignette Directive
      • Spray-suppression systems for motor vehicles
      • Windscreen defrosting and demisting systems for motor vehicles
      • Safe agricultural and forestry vehicles
      • Safe motor vehicles and trailers
      • Rear registration plates on motor vehicles
      • Re-use, recycling and recovery of vehicle parts and materials
      • Motor vehicles with trailers: permissible sound level
      • Manufacturer’s statutory plate and identification number for motor vehicles
      • Motor vehicles - block exemption from EU competition law
      • Motor vehicle wheel guards
      • Motor vehicle towing devices
      • Hydrogen-powered vehicles — type-approval rules
      • Installation of motor vehicle tyres
      • EU type-approval legislation with regard to the UK withdrawal
      • EU approval and market surveillance measures for motor vehicles and their trailers
      • Combating cross-border vehicle crime
      • Clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
      • Car windscreen wiper and washer systems
    • Aligning technical standards — General market surveillance
      • Curbing the sound levels of motor vehicles
      • Worldwide harmonised Light-duty vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) and Real Driving Emissions (RDE)
      • Type-approval and market surveillance requirements for motorbikes/mopeds and quads in the EU
      • Global technical harmonisation of vehicles
      • eCall in-vehicle system — type-approval
    • Pollution from vehicles
      • CO2 emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles
      • Reduction in CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and of new light commercial vehicles
      • Reducing pollution from light motor vehicles
      • Quality of petrol and diesel fuels: sulphur and lead
      • Monitoring and reporting the CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles
      • Information on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars
      • Fuels — reducing sulphur content
      • End-of-life vehicles
      • Emissions from heavy-duty vehicles (Euro VI): certification rules
      • Emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles
      • Emission limits and type-approval rules for non-road mobile machinery
      • CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of heavy-duty vehicles
    • Technical implications of road safety
      • Authorised dimensions and maximum weights for trucks, buses and coaches
      • Type-approval requirements to ensure the general safety of vehicles and the protection of vulnerable road users
      • Safer cars: seat belts and child restraint systems
      • Road haulage and passenger transport companies: operating rules
      • Road safety: driving licences
      • Protection of pedestrians and vulnerable road users
      • Retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles
      • Motor vehicles and trailers: vehicle registration documents
      • Driving time and rest periods in the road transport sector
  • Construction sector
    • Construction products
    • Temporary and mobile work sites
    • Noise emission by equipment used outdoors
    • Fire safety in existing hotels
    • Exposure to mechanical vibration
    • Exposure to asbestos: worker protection
    • Exposure to artificial optical radiation
    • Energy performance of buildings
    • Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
• Single market for services
  • Accessibility of products and services
  • System for the recognition of professional qualifications
  • The EU’s services directive
  • Stepping up the enforcement of EU legislation on the posting of workers
  • Sea transport — supply of services, competition, unfair pricing and access to ocean trade
  • The supply of shipping services
  • Remuneration policies in the financial services sector
  • Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
  • Regime for the remuneration of directors of listed companies
  • Postal services in the EU
  • Open internet access and roam-like-at-home
  • Liability insurance of air carriers
  • Inland navigation: access to the market
  • Freedom to provide services within the EU (ocean trade)
  • Insurance distribution — new rules from 2018
  • European standardisation
  • EU cross-border parcel delivery services
  • Ensuring the sustainable supply and use of raw materials
  • Electronic road tolls — interoperability of national systems
  • Electronic road tolls — compatibility between countries
  • E-commerce - standard EU rules
  • Data protection in the electronic communications sector
  • Air service agreements between EU and non-EU countries
  • Agricultural and food supply chain — unfair business-to-business trading practices
  • Access to the international market for coach and bus services
• Businesses in the internal market
  • Restructuring, insolvency and discharge of debt
  • Company law
    • A simplified business environment
    • Single-member private limited liability companies
    • Shareholder Rights Directive
    • Statute for a European Company
    • Indirect taxes on raising capital
    • European Cooperative Society
    • European Economic Interest Grouping
    • Comparable and clear company financial statements across the EU
    • Company takeover bids
    • Common system of taxation: mergers, divisions, transfers of assets, exchanges of shares and transfer of the registered office of an SE or SCE
    • Common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different European Union Member States
    • Certain aspects of company law concerning limited liability companies
  • Public procurement
    • Awards of public contracts and concessions — water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors
    • Public purchasing — rules for water, energy, transport and postal sectors
    • Public procurement in the fields of defence and security
    • Electronic invoicing in public procurement
    • Concession contracts in the EU
    • Common procurement vocabulary
    • Awards of public contracts and concessions — public supply and public works contracts
  • Intellectual property
    • Accession to the World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties
    • WTO: agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property
    • Unified Patent Court Agreement
    • Legal protection: Topographies of semiconductor products
    • Intellectual property rights — customs enforcement
    • Intellectual property rights infringements
    • Fighting violations of EU intellectual property rights in non-EU countries
    • EU rules on protecting trade secrets
    • Ensuring technology transfer agreements respect competition rules
    • Enforcement of intellectual property rights
    • Copyright and related rights
      • Computer programs — legal protection
      • Resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art
      • Rental, lending and certain other rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property
      • Legal protection: databases
      • EU rules on protecting trade secrets
      • Copyright — broadcasters’ online transmissions and retransmissions of television and radio programmes
      • Copyright and related rights: term of protection
      • Copyright and related rights: satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
      • Copyright and related rights in the information society
      • Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
    • Inventions, trade marks & designs
      • Biotechnological inventions: legal protection
      • Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
      • Single EU patent boosts intellectual property protection and cuts related costs - EUR-Lex
      • Wider access to copyright material — orphan works
      • Harmonised national laws on the protection of designs
      • European Union trade mark
      • EU trade mark law (national registrations)
      • EU unitary patents – translation arrangements
      • Community design
• Banking and financial services
  • Capital Markets Union
    • A single EU market for capital to boost jobs and growth
    • Covered bonds and covered bond public supervision
    • Capital Markets Union Action Plan
  • Financial supervision and risk management
    • Sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector
    • Banking Union
      • Single supervisory mechanism framework regulation
    • Supervision of financial institutions
      • Credit rating agencies
      • Supervision of financial conglomerates
      • Reporting of supervisory financial information
      • European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
      • European Systemic Risk Board
      • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
      • European Banking Authority (EBA)
      • European Banking Committee
      • ECB Banking Supervision
        • European Central Bank — Close cooperation within the Single Supervisory Mechanism with non-euro EU countries
        • Systemically important payment systems (SIPS)
        • Supervising banks' health: ECB accountability and transparency
        • Single supervisory mechanism framework regulation
        • The European Central Bank’s role in supervising banks
        • The European Central Bank (ECB)
        • Powers of the ECB to impose sanctions
        • Failing banks and investment firms: rules and procedures
        • Eurosystem procurement framework
    • Managing risks to banks and financial institutions
      • Addressing troubled financial institutions’ problems
      • State aid: European Union financial crisis rules for banks
      • Reorganisation and winding-up of credit institutions
      • Prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms
      • Liquidity coverage requirement for credit institutions
      • Failing banks and investment firms: rules and procedures
      • EU notification procedure for UCITS
      • Establishing bank resolution funds
      • Deposit guarantee schemes
      • Crisis management in the financial sector
      • Banks and investment firms – prudential supervision
  • Consumer finance and payments
    • Consumer finance
      • Buying residential immovable property – rules on loans
      • Opening/switching bank accounts and information on fees
      • Key information about investment products
      • Deposit guarantee schemes
      • Consumer credit agreements
    • Payment services
      • Cross-border payments in the EU
      • Single Euro Payments Area Regulation
      • Revised rules for payment services in the EU
      • Fees for card-based payments
      • Electronic money: business and prudential supervision
      • ECB Guideline on TARGET2
  • Financial markets, financial instruments
    • Securities markets
      • Admission of securities to official stock-exchange listing and information to be published on those securities
      • Transparent securities financing transactions
      • Simpler, more transparent and more standardised securitisation
      • Short selling of securities
      • Preventing market abuse in financial markets
      • Protecting investors when an investment firm fails
      • Prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market
      • Markets in financial instruments regulation (MiFIR)
      • Issuers of securities - more transparent information
      • Criminal sanctions for market abuse
      • Better regulated and transparent financial markets
    • Investment funds
      • Cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings
      • UCITS: organisational requirements and rules of conduct
      • Strengthening the global competitiveness of EU investment funds
      • Rules on the obligations of depositaries for EU investment funds
      • Key information about investment products
      • Fund mergers and master-feeder structures relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS)
      • Hedge funds and private equity funds — rules for managers
      • European venture capital funds
      • European social entrepreneurship funds
      • European crowdfunding service providers for business
      • Ensuring accuracy and integrity of benchmarks
    • Post-trade services
      • EU rules on over-the-counter derivatives contracts, central counterparties and trade repositories
      • Settlement finality in payment and securities settlement systems
      • Recovery and resolution of central counterparties
      • Financial collateral arrangements - improving legal clarity
      • Improving securities settlement in the EU
  • Capital movements
    • Effects of foreign legislation on the EU’s financial interests
    • Purchasing property in other EU countries
    • Free movement of capital in the EU
  • Insurance and pensions
    • Civil liability insurance for motor vehicles
    • Export credit insurance
    • Insurance and reinsurance
    • Insurance and occupational pensions: advisory committee
    • Disaster insurance
  • Company reporting and auditing
    • Accounting documents of branches of foreign credit and financial institutions
    • The statutory audit — ensuring accurate company financial statements
    • Rules for statutory audit of public-interest entities
    • International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs)
    • International accounting standards adopted within the European Union
    • Insurance companies: annual accounts
    • Disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by large companies and groups
    • Annual accounts of banks and other financial institutions
• European statistics
  • Collection of quarterly non-financial statistics for government by EU countries
  • Statistics on holdings of securities
  • Statistical classification of products by activity
  • Statistical classification of economic activities
  • European statistics on persons and households
  • EU statistics of goods transport by inland waterways
  • EU production system — statistical units
  • Comparable EU-wide statistics on economic activities
• Archived summaries
  • A new approach to technical harmonisation
  • World Trade Organisation
  • Workers' mobility: facilitating the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension rights
  • Tax-free allowances: permanent or temporary importation of private motor vehicles
  • Spray suppression devices on motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Speed limitation on-board devices of certain categories of motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • The legal aspects of intra-EU investment
  • The Internal Market Information System (IMI)
  • Tackling tax obstacles to the cross-border provision of occupational pensions
  • Social services of general interest
  • Survey on industrial production
  • Two- or three-wheeled motor vehicles: maximum dimensions, masses and loads
  • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – Internal market
  • Two- or three-wheeled motor vehicles: maximum design speed
  • Two or three-wheeled motor vehicles: EC type-approval system - EUR-Lex
  • Two or three-wheeled motor vehicles: components and characteristics
  • Two- or three-wheeled motor vehicles: braking devices
  • Two- or three-wheeled motor vehicles: audible warning device
  • Two- or three-wheeled motor vehicles: anti-theft devices
  • Turkey - Internal market
  • Slovenia
  • Slovakia
  • The fight against bioterrorism (communication)
  • Single market: improving its functioning
  • Single Market Act: improving our work, business and exchanges with one another
  • Strategy for the internal market
  • Simple pressure vessels
  • The euro and the international economy
  • Traditional specialities guaranteed
  • Seventh Directive: consolidated accounts of companies with limited liability
  • Statutory markings for two- or three-wheel motor vehicles
  • Tractors and agricultural or forestry machinery: rear-mounted protective devices
  • Tractors and agricultural or forestry machinery: passenger seats
  • Tractors and agricultural or forestry machinery: front-mounted protection structures
  • Tractors and agricultural or forestry machinery: driver’s seat
  • Tractors and agricultural or forestry machinery: braking
  • Toy safety
  • Securities markets: Advisory, regulatory and supervisory committee
  • The eCall service
  • Towards a thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides
  • The coupling device and the reverse of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
  • The competitiveness of business-related services
  • Towards a competitive and sustainable EU automotive industry
  • White Paper on the single market for investment funds
  • The taking-up and pursuit of the business of credit institutions
  • The prevention of and fight against organised crime in the financial sector
  • White Paper on services of general interest
  • White Paper on Financial Services Policy (2005-2010)
  • Vulnerable road users and frontal protection systems
  • The role of standardisation in Europe
  • The role of European standardisation in the framework of European policies and legislation
  • The road towards a banking union
  • Technology transfer agreements
  • Technical standards: tyre pressure gauges for motor vehicles (until December 2015)
  • Technical requirements for inland waterway vessels
  • Taxation of the financial sector
  • Taxation of savings income
  • Stands for two-wheel vehicles
  • Standardisation: information technology and telecommunications
  • Satellite navigation: Galileo
  • Safe active implantable medical devices
  • Rules applicable to procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors until 2016
  • Rules applicable to Institutionalised Public-Private Partnerships (IPPP)
  • Roll-over protection structures of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
  • Romania
  • Risk Capital Action Plan (RCAP)
  • Road safety: transportable pressure equipment
  • Road safety: Road Safety Action Programme (2003-2010)
  • Review of the Lamfalussy process
  • Rules on public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts
  • Road safety: cross-border application of the legislation
  • Responding to the crisis in the European automotive industry
  • Placing of pyrotechnic articles on the market
  • Phthalate-containing soft PVC toys and childcare articles
  • Pharmaceutical Committee
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Public-private partnership in innovative medicines
  • Production of Community statistics
  • Reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings (until November 2012)
  • Payment services in the EU
  • Patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering: implementation report (2002)
  • Passenger restraint devices on two-wheel vehicles
  • Patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering: implementation report (2005)
  • Public limited liability companies (PLCs) - protecting shareholders and creditors
  • Removing obstacles to cross-border investments by venture capital funds
  • Relationship between card-holders and card-issuers (II)
  • Passenger car related taxes
  • Parts and characteristics of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
  • Procedures for the registration of motor vehicles originating in another Member State
  • Reinsurance (until November 2012)
  • Regulatory information that European Union (EU) company branches must disclose
  • Preventing money laundering by means of the financial system
  • Protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users
  • Pressure equipment
  • Reforming the financial system
  • Parking lamps on motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Reform of the EU State aid rules on Services of General Economic Interest
  • Parallel imports of proprietary medicinal products
  • Packaged retail investment products
  • Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles
  • Reduction in CO2 emissions of new passenger cars
  • Protecting health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants
  • Recreational craft
  • Pollutant gases of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
  • Rear-view mirrors and supplementary devices for indirect vision (until 2014)
  • Online gambling (Green Paper)
  • Prospectus to be published when securities are issued
  • Policy plan on legal migration
  • Rear registration plates of two or three-wheel motor vehicles
  • Return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of an EU country
  • Railway safety
  • Radio and telecommunications terminal equipment
  • Poland
  • Plan to harmonise national rules on UCITS depositaries
  • Intrastat: statistics relating to the trading of goods between EU countries
  • Non-cash payments — combating fraud and counterfeiting
  • Non-automatic weighing instruments
  • Mergers between public limited liability companies in a single EU country
  • Lithuania
  • Liquid fuel tanks and rear underrun protection devices for motor vehicles
  • Limitations on the admission of third-country nationals for the purpose of pursuing activities as self-employed persons
  • Interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system
  • Interoperability of the conventional rail system
  • Lighting and light-signalling on agricultural and forestry tractors and machines
  • Lighting and light-signalling for two or three-wheel motor vehicles
  • Lifts
  • Limitations on the admission of third-country nationals for employment
  • New European commitment for services of general interest
  • Measuring instruments
  • Lifelong learning: European Qualifications
  • Life assurance: freedom to provide services (until November 2012)
  • National technical regulations and free movement of goods
  • Maximum authorised settings for speed limitation devices in commercial vehicles
  • Legal expenses insurance (until November 2012)
  • Internal market Strategy - Priorities 2003-2006
  • Markets in financial instruments (MiFID) and investment services
  • Internal Market Problem Solving System (SOLVIT network)
  • Market abuse
  • Latvia
  • Interior fittings for motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Maritime safety: marine equipment
  • Interim report on the single market in the 21st century
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: tyres (until 2017)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: safety glass and glazing materials
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: roadworthiness test
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: rear fog lamps (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: protection of occupants in the event of a frontal impact (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: lateral protection for goods vehicles (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: front underrun protection devices (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: fire behaviour of the materials used in the internal fittings of buses and coaches (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: mechanical coupling devices (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: distinguishing sign of the Member State of registration
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: masses and dimensions of cars (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles with trailers: behaviour of steering device under impact (until 2014)
  • Intellectual property rights: enhancing their enforcement
  • Motor vehicles — EU type-approval system
  • Motor vehicles and their trailers: steering equipment (until 2014)
  • Motor vehicles and their trailers: roadside inspection of commercial vehicles (until 2018)
  • Motor vehicle liability insurance: freedom to provide services
  • Mortgage Credit in the EU (Green Paper)
  • Managing collective retirement schemes: occupational pension funds
  • Management of online rights in musical works
  • Integration of European Mortgage Credit Markets (White Paper)
  • Management of copyright and related rights in the internal market
  • Malta
  • Investment services
  • Investment research and financial analysts
  • Notification of national measures derogating from the principle of the free movement of goods
  • Non-road mobile machinery: gaseous pollutants
  • Non-life insurance: third Directive
  • Geographical Indications and Designations of Origin
  • Financing of European standardisation
  • Heating systems for motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Information procedures: technical standards and regulations and regulations on information society services
  • Financial transaction tax
  • Information on the payer accompanying transfers of funds
  • Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP)
  • Financial education
  • Headlamps which function as main-beam and/or dipped-beam headlamps for motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Harmonisation of trade mark law in the European Union
  • Front fog lamps on motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Industrial property rights strategy
  • Freedom to provide services
  • Free movement of workers: taking stock of their rights
  • In-vehicle emergency call system "eCall" (Second eSafety Communication)
  • Improving tyres’ fuel efficiency, braking capacity and noise levels (until April 2021)
  • Fees Payable to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM)
  • “Green” vehicles: a European strategy
  • Green public procurement
  • Green Paper on the statutory auditor
  • Framework for action
  • Fourth Directive: annual accounts of companies with limited liability
  • Impact on capital markets
  • IMI Joint Undertaking
  • Green Paper on public-private partnerships
  • Exposure to electromagnetic fields
  • Exposure to asbestos
  • Iceland - Internal market
  • Export and storage of mercury
  • Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
  • Fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps — ecodesign requirements
  • Green Paper on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society
  • i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative (third eSafety communication)
  • Goods: Non-resident carriers in the national market
  • Goods infringing intellectual property rights
  • Insurance undertakings: supervision
  • Insurance mediation: better consumer protection
  • Insurance Guarantee Schemes (White Paper)
  • Hungary
  • European Year of Workers' Mobility (2006)
  • European financial supervision
  • European Job Mobility Action Plan (2007-2010)
  • European anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy plan
  • Europass - greater mobility for learning and working in Europe
  • EURES - the EU’s job mobility portal
  • EU strategy for biofuels
  • EU programme to support financial reporting and auditing
  • Establishment of the Community Patent Court
  • Estonia
  • Essential medicines for developing countries (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria)
  • Equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
  • eSafety: the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for road safety
  • Ensuring medical devices are safe and efficient for patients
  • Ensuring the compatibility of EU rail systems
  • Enlargement of the euro area after 1 May 2004
  • Engine power of motor vehicles and trailers (up until 2013)
  • Enforcing intellectual property rights: EU action plan
  • Enhancing the patent system in Europe
  • Enhancing the implementation of the New Approach Directives
  • Enhancing the framework for investment funds
  • Emissions from diesel and gas engines (up until 2013)
  • Electronic payment: code of conduct
  • Electromagnetic compatibility of electrical and electronic apparatus
  • Electronic commerce
  • eGovernment
  • EDICOM Programme
  • Electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
  • Drug precursors: external aspects
  • Dividing up public limited companies from the same EU country
  • Driver-perceived noise level of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
  • eCall aims to speed up response from emergency services to car crash victims
  • e-Procurement
  • Drinking and driving: Maximum authorised level of alcohol in the blood
  • Direction indicator lamps for motor vehicles with trailers (until 2014)
  • Direct insurance other than life assurance: freedom to provide services (until November 2012)
  • Developing Public Private Partnerships
  • Development of e-Procurement in the European Union (Green Paper)
  • Disclosure and the validity of obligations entered into by, and the nullity of, companies with limited liability
  • Czech Republic
  • Deposit-guarantee schemes
  • Defence procurement exemptions
  • Defence procurement
  • Customs response to latest trends in counterfeiting and piracy
  • Cross-border payments in euros
  • Cross-border mergers of limited liability companies
  • Cyprus
  • Croatia - Internal market
  • Corporate and financial malpractice
  • Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
  • Cosmetic products (until 2013)
  • Credit and suretyship insurance
  • Controls, tell-tales and indicators for two or three-wheel motor vehicles
  • Controlled management of hazardous waste (until the end of 2010)
  • Consumer access to basic payment accounts
  • Concessions under Community law
  • Compulsory fitting of safety belts
  • Community programme to support financial services, financial reporting and auditing (2010-2013)
  • Competition in professional services
  • Community strategy for endocrine disrupters
  • Community strategy for dioxins, furans and PCBs
  • Companies: protecting the interests of members and third parties
  • Community strategy concerning mercury
  • Community patent
  • Common taxation of parent companies and their subsidiaries
  • Combating social security fraud and undeclared work (Code of conduct)
  • Combating counterfeiting and piracy in the single market
  • Classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations
  • Classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances (phase-in period until 1 June 2015)
  • Cableways for the carriage of passengers
  • Bulgaria
  • Capital adequacy of investment firms and credit institutions
  • Calculating the capital requirement for currency risk for currencies pegged to the euro
  • Cabs of commercial vehicles (until 2014)
  • Braking devices of certain motor vehicles (until 2014)
  • Biocides (until 1 September 2013)
  • Bank dividend policy – ECB recommendation
  • A new boost to trade in goods
  • A European Private Company Statute
  • A call for action to strengthen the European-based pharmaceutical industry for the benefit of the patient
  • A common European approach to Sovereign Wealth Funds
  • A competitive automotive regulatory framework for the 21st Century
  • A concerted effort to establish a European financial area
  • A single market for 21st century Europe
  • A new framework for electronic communications services
  • A renewed vision for the pharmaceutical sector
  • A vision for the internal market for industrial products
  • Action plan for clearing and settlement
  • Achieving the full benefits and potential of free movement of workers
  • Actions for injunctions
  • Action plan for skills and mobility
  • Admission and residence of researchers from non-EU countries
  • Agricultural or forestry tractors: EC type-approval procedure
  • Approval of explosives intended for civilian use
  • Appliances burning gaseous fuels (until 2018)
  • Ban on trade in cat and dog fur