The European Union (EU) plans to strengthen the functioning of the single market that provides free movement of goods, capital, services and people in the face of increasing geopolitical and commercial tensions.
The EU Commission, together with the 27 member states, through the European Economic Area Agreement, Iceland, Lihtenştayn, Norway; He announced his new strategy for the development of the functioning of the single market that includes Switzerland through the sectoral agreements and that brings standards with the common rules they are obliged to legally comply with the participating countries.
According to the strategy, the problems that prevent the revival of trade and investments within the EU will be eliminated, while obstacles to trade and investments will be reduced.
Steps will be taken to help SMEs to carry out their activities and grow, and the digitalization of enterprises will be given priority. With complex EU rules, business organizations and operations will be changed to make it more simple.
Measures will be taken to increase the recognition of professional competencies in a single market. In a single market, common standards will be studied.
Different rules will be eliminated between the member states on packaging and regulation differences in the field of services will be reduced.
In the single market, especially in low -risk sectors, the rules regarding the temporary assignments outside their own countries will be simplified.
Integration will be increased in energy, telecommunications, transportation and financial services sectors. Thus, the free movement of the products, the provision of services through the border and the operations and operations throughout the EU will be simplified.
The single market covers around 26 million businesses and 450 million consumers. The GDP of the only market is around 18 trillion euros.
