Study (Note) - Towards Indicators for Measuring the Performance of the Single Market - PE 518.749 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

At the request of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), this briefing note aims to critically discuss the existing tools for monitoring the economic and regulatory performance of the EU Single Market, and to lay down the basis for subsequent work on the definition of a list of economic and regulatory performance indicators that could be used in the context of the European Semester exercise. The conclusion, at this stage of the research, is that there is no “silver bullet” indicator, i.e. no (composite) indicator which is able to monitor and evaluate such a complex reality as the Single Market project. Setting up a set of indicators seems to be the best way forward to assess Single Market integration and its performance.