Today, the Commission welcomes the adoption of the first Single Market Programme by the co-legislators. With €4.2 billion over the period of 2021-2027, the programme provides an integrated package to support and strengthen the governance of the single market, including for financial services.
Last week, the European Commission released the Rolling plan for ICT Standardisation 2021. This edition features new chapters on 'COVID-19', 'Safety, transparency and due process online', 'Circular economy' and 'U-space'.
The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is adapting its organisational structure to help Europe’s industrial ecosystems recover more effectively from the COVID-crisis and to achieve the EU's digital and green goals.
The European Commission has released new guidance for European contracting authorities on how to use EU law to address suspected cases of collusion in public procurement. It is also providing further detail on tools announced in 2017 to help EU countries better deter, detect and address collusion.
Today, the Commission adopted three guidance documents that aim to help European citizens, businesses, but also national administrations to fully harness the single market for goods.
The Your Europe digital roadshow: ‘Your Europe Has the Answers' kicked off on 8 February 2020. The first event tackled the topic 'Expanding horizons through studying and business in the Netherlands'.
This afternoon, the Commission and Member States will hold the third formal meeting of the Single Market Enforcement Task Force (SMET) to identify and remove barriers in the single market.
The European Commission has released ProcurCompEU - a new tool to support the professionalisation of public procurement. ProcurCompEU will help contracting authorities and individuals in EU countries assess their competences and knowledge of public procurement, identify skills gaps, and design targeted learning and development tools.
The Commission has proposed today an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union: the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act.
Today, we published our first review of the 2018 Geo-blocking Regulation, which prohibits unjustified geographical restrictions on the sale of goods and services within the EU. The conclusions show that a number of geo-blocking obstacles have diminished since the introduction of the rule, but there is a need to tackle remaining obstacles.
Today, we published a study that confirms the existence of territorial supply constraints in the EU retail sector. These constraints can contribute to the fragmentation of the single market.
This conference brought together authorities, businesses and consumer associations to discuss the future of market surveillance.
The focus of the workshop was 'Retail: Recovery and (re)birth'. It aimed to gather feedback and encourage an exchange on how to help shops recover from forced closures due to COVID-19.
The focus of the workshop was 'Retail: Recovery and (re)birth'. It aimed to gather feedback and encourage an exchange on how to help shops recover from forced closures due to COVID-19.
In our SME strategy, we announced that the European Commission will support a pilot on pioneer partnerships among border regions to enhance cooperation to enforce the single market and remove administrative barriers.
You are invited to join this online workshop, which will be an opportunity to hear the first results of the study on 'International postal service, remuneration and regulation' being prepared by WIK-Consult.
This call for tenders is for a study on competition in business services professions.
