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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

Pre-infringement dialogue

  • Pre-infringement dialogues

Internal Market Information System (IMI)

  • Speed in accepting requests (% accepted within 7 days)
  • Requests not accepted within 14 days (%)
  • Speed in answering requests (avg. number of days taken to answer)
  • Requests answered within 30 days (%)
  • Requests answered by the date agreed in IMI (%)
  • All exchanges in IMI
  • IMI requests by Member States 

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

Administration and rules

  • Burden of government regulation
  • Impact of regulation on long-term investment decisions
  • Simplification of EU rules
  • Digital Public Services for Businesses
  • Digitalisation of cross-border business procedures
  • Payment delays by public authorities
  • Time to resolve insolvency (years)
  • Length of standardisation procedures

Access to Services and Services Markets

  • Positive recognition rates by profession
  • Recognition of qualifications in professional services (% of all requests)
  • Restrictions to trade in services
  • Restrictiveness indicators for the following professions:
  • Architect
  • Accountant
  • Civil engineer
  • Lawyer
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Patent Agent
  • Tourist guide
  • Postal services:
  • Postal domestic transit times
  • Postal prices, domestic vs. intra-EU

Access to Finance

  • Venture capital investment
  • Time to get paid by businesses
  • Household savings invested in company bonds, stocks and investment funds
  • Access to public financial support: share of businesses that indicated a deterioration

Labour Mobility and Matching Across Borders

  • Labour mobility
  • Compliance with the EURES Performance Measurement System
  • EURES labour market share
  • User satisfaction with EURES services
  • Job placements vs. labour mobility

Access to Public Procurement

  • Single bidder
  • No calls for bids (direct awards)
  • Publication value by GDP
  • Award criteria based on price alone
  • Decision speed
  • Contracts with SME participation
  • SME bids
  • Procedures divided into lots
  • e-Certis: Criteria Completeness
  • e-Certis: Evidence recorded
  • e-Certis: Evidence types
  • e-Certis: Priced evidence
  • e-Certis: Percentage of items of evidence available online
  • Public Producrement Review (absolute numbers)
  • Public Producrement Review (divided by number of calls)

Market Surveillance

  • Investigations per Member State
  • Investigations per million inhabitants
  • Non-compliances per Member State
  • Non-compliances per country per million inhabitants
  • Sectors with the highest number of inspections and cases of non-compliance

 

Outcomes and Competitiveness

Growth, productivity and investments

  • Labour productivity
  • Growth rate in GDP per person employed
  • Private investment as a share of GDP
  • Public investment as share of GDP
  • Foreign direct investment flows
  • Foreign direct investment stocks
  • EU investment in industrial transition
  • High-growth enterprises
  • Wage levels and evolution
  • Value added by size of business
  • Value added in industry
  • Value added in services

Intra-EU trade

  • EU trade integration in goods (by MS)
  • EU trade integration in services (by MS)
  • Trade integration in the Single Market (EU internal integration trendline)
  • Exports of goods to other EU countries by SMEs in the industry sector (% of SMEs)
  • Market integration: international comparisons
  • Price convergence: general trend
  • Concentration of State aid

Global trade and economic security

  • Trade integration with the rest of the world (EU global integration trendline)
  • Exports of goods and services as a share of worldwide imports
  • European partners' trade integration with the EU
  • Global market share in medium and high technology manufacturing
  • Global market share of high technology exports
  • External vulnerability: all industrial products
  • External vulnerability: Clean Industrial Deal scope
  • Domestic manufacturing of key net-zero technologies

Energy and decarbonisation

  • Electricity prices for non-household consumers
  • Electrification
  • Zero-emission electricity production
  • Share of energy from renewable sources
  • Annual installation of renewable electricity
  • Deployment of charging infrastructure
  • Circular material use rate
  • Resource productivity
  • Recycling of municipal waste
  • Air emissions intensity: greenhouse gases
  • Air emission intensity: fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)
  • Eco-innovation index

Employment and skills

  • Employment rate
  • Employment growth
  • Employment by size of business
  • Employment by gender
  • Adult participation in education and training
  • Average test scores for 15-year-olds (PISA)
  • Labour shortages for the green transition
  • Precarious employment
  • Health and safety at work: accidents & work related health problems

Innovation and digitalisation

  • R&D expenditure as a share of GDP
  • Patent applications per million inhabitants
  • University rankings
  • ICT specialists as share of the workforce
  • Adoption of digital technologies by companies
  • Share of businesses with e-sales across EU borders
  • Digital intensity in SMEs
  • Share of EU SMEs introducing product innovation

 

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