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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

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
  • EU trade integration in services
  • 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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