Highlights - New Internal Market Strategy for good and services - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

The Commissionintends to work with Member States/market participants to create a real cultureof compliance for Single Market rules.The Commission will strengthen mutualrecognition to open up more opportunities to companies that want to expandcross-border. It will also reinforce market surveillance in the area of goodsto keep non-compliant products from the EU market. And it will propose a marketinformation tool, which will allow the Commission to collect comprehensive,reliable and unbiased information from selected market players with a view toimprove the Commission's ability to monitor and enforce EU rules in priorityareas. Revealing the main priorities of the new strategy (to bring moreopportunities for consumers, professionals and businesses, encouraginginnovation that Europe needs and creating a culture of compliance) CommissionerBieńkowska said that this year is the year of planning, while next year will befor delivery