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Transposition

  • Transposition deficit
  • Change over the last 12 months
  • Long-overdue directives (2 years or more)
  • Total transposition delays
  • Conformity deficit (incorrectly transposed directives)
  • Duration of infringement processes
  • EEA EFTA countries' transposition deficit
  • Changes in the average transposition deficit
  • Changes in the average conformity deficit
  • Changes in the incompleteness rate
  • Directives undergoing completeness checks
  • Overdue directives by sector and Member States

Infringements

  • Number of pending infringement proceedings
  • Change over the last 12 months
  • Duration of infringement proceedings
  • Time taken to comply with a Court ruling
  • EEA EFTA countries' pending infringement cases
  • Changes in the number of infringement cases
  • Evolution of infringement cases by Member State
  • Average duration by sector
  • Types of cases
  • Cases by sector

EU Pilot

  • EU pilot cases

Internal Market Information System (IMI)

  • Speed in accepting incoming requests (within 1 week)
  • Speed in answering requests
  • Requests answered by the date agreed in IMI
  • Timeliness of replies (as rated by counterparts)
  • Efforts made (as rated by counterparts)
  • All exchanges in IMI
  • IMI requests per quarter
  • IMI requests by policy area

Notifications (TRIS/IMI)

TRIS
  • Number of national drafts notified to the Commission (total)
  • Number of national drafts notified to the Commission (by sector)
  • Reactions sent by the Commission to Member States
  • Number of reactions by Member States to draft technical regulations notified by another Member State
  • Number of reactions received by Member States from another Member State
  • Contributions received from stakeholders, by notifying Member State
  • Number of final texts notified to the Commission
IMI
  • Number of notifications in total and breakdown by Member State
  • Legal basis for notifications under the Services Directive
  • Sectoral breakdown of notifications received
  • Reactions issued to notifications received

SOLVIT

  • Overall staffing indicator (with 5 components)
  • Difficulties identified by problem area
  • Time taken to establish initial contact
  • Home centre – preparation time
  • Home centre – time to accept a solution
  • Home centre – time to not accept a complaint
  • Lead centre – time to accept a case
  • Lead centre – resolution time
  • Resolution rate by country

Business Framework Conditions

Responsive administration and burden of regulation

  • Burden of government regulation
  • Digital Public Services for Businesses
  • Payment delays by public authorities
  • Time to resolve insolvency (years)
  • Impact of regulation on long-term investment decisions

Market Surveillance

  • Investigations per Member State
  • Cases of non-compliance per Member State
  • Sectors with the highest number of inspections and cases of non-compliance

Access to Public Procurement

Public procurement indicators
  • Single bidder
  • No calls for bids (direct awards)
  • Publication value by GDP
  • Joint procurement
  • Award criteria based on price alone
  • Decision speed
  • Contracts with SME participation
  • SME bids
  • Procedures divided into lots
  • Missing calls for bids
  • Missing seller registration numbers
  • Missing buyer registration numbers
e-Certis indicators
  • Criteria Completeness
  • Evidence recorded
  • Evidence types
  • Priced evidence
  • Percentage of items of evidence available online, by country and items of evidence with samples

Access to Services and Services Markets

Performance indicators on Barriers to Access to Professional Services Markets

Restrictiveness indicators for the following professions:

  • Architect
  • Accountant
  • Civil engineer
  • Lawyer
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Patent Agent
  • Tourist guide
Performance indicators on the recognition of professional qualifications
  • Positive recognition rates by profession
  • Recognition of qualifications in professional services (% of all requests)
Postal services
  • Domestic and intra-EU priority letter prices, letter 20g (EUR)
  • Domestic transit times, Day+1 performance, priority letters 20g

Labour Mobility and Matching Across Borders

  • Mobility
EURES indicators
  • Compliance with the EURES Performance Measurement System
  • IT compliance for the EURES Portal
  • Labour market share
  • User satisfaction with EURES services
  • Job placements vs. labour mobility

Access to Finance

  • Access to public financial support: share of businesses that indicated a deterioration
  • Time to get paid by businesses (days)
  • Venture capital investments as a share of GDP

Outcomes and Competitiveness

Growth, Employment and Social Indicators

  • Value added in industry
  • Value added in services
  • Value added by size of business
  • Labour productivity
  • Annual growth rate in GDP per person employed
  • Share of high growth businesses
  • Employment growth
  • Number of people employed by size of business
  • Employment rate
  • Precarious employment
  • Employment by gender
  • Adult participation in education and training
  • Wage levels and development
  • Health and safety at work: accidents & work related health problems

Integration of Goods and Services

  • EU trade integration in goods (levels)
  • EU trade integration in goods (change)
  • EU trade integration in services (levels)
  • EU trade integration in services (change)
  • Exports of goods to other EU countries by SMEs in the industry sector (% of SMEs)
  • Trade within the EU and with the rest of the world
  • Market integration: international comparisons
  • Price convergence: general trend
  • Price convergence: average growth rates
  • Concentration of State aid

Economic Resilience

  • Public investment as share of GDP
  • Private investment as a share of GDP
  • R&D expenditure as a share of GDP
  • Share of EU SMEs introducing product innovation
  • Patent applications per million inhabitants
  • University rankings
  • Average test scores for 15-year-olds (PISA)
  • Foreign direct investments
  • Exports of goods and services as a share of the rest of the world’s imports
  • Global market share in medium and high technology manufacturing
  • Global market share of high technology exports
  • Strategic dependencies: overview 
  • Strategic dependencies: raw materials 
  • Domestic manufacturing of key net-zero technologies
  • Electricity prices for non-household consumers
  • Electricity price volatility

Digital Transition

  • Share of firms with e-sales across EU borders
  • Digital intensity in SMEs
  • Adoption of digital technologies by companies
  • ICT specialists as share of the workforce

Green Transition

  • Circular material use rate
  • Resource productivity
  • Recycling of municipal waste
  • Eco-innovation index
  • Air emissions intensity: greenhouse gases
  • Air emission intensity: fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)
  • Share of energy from renewable sources
  • SMEs that have taken resource efficiency-measures
  • SMEs that offer green products or services
  • Electrification
  • Zero-emission electricity production
  • Deployment of charging infrastructure
  • EMAS organisations and sites
  • EMAS leading sectors, 2022
  • EU Ecolabel licences

Country data

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