Economic studies on the Single Market
| January 2007 | DG Economic and Financial Affairs' economic paper on the Single Market "Steps towards a deeper economic integration: the internal market in the 21st century" |
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| DG Economic and Financial Affairs published an economic paper on the Single Market in January 2007 as a contribution to the Commission's Single Market Review. The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of the implementation of the Internal Market Programme and to propose ideas on how its potential can be better exploited. Overall the paper concludes that the Internal Market is a powerful instrument to promote economic integration and to increase competition within the EU and that it has been the source of large macro-economic benefits. However, these gains could have been substantially larger if the removal of most of the remaining cross-border barriers was achieved. |
Services of General Economic Interest
| Evaluation of the Methodology used to assess the performance of the network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI) - external evaluation report | |
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| 31.10.2007 |
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| Report 2006 | |
| 13.07.2007 | Consumers benefit as market opening leads to better performing network industries |
| 12.07.2007 | Horizontal evaluation of the performance of network industries providing services of general economic interest
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| Report 2005 | |
| 22.12.2005 | EU driven reforms of services of general interest benefit consumers and improve performance |
| 20.12.2005 | Horizontal evaluation of the performance of network industries providing services of general economic interest
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| 09.2005 | "Market Opening in Network Industries"
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| 09.2005 | Special Eurobarometer 226 "Prices and quality of services of general economic interest in the 10 new Member States"
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| 07.2005 | Special EUROBAROMETER 219 "Services of General Interest - EU 25", available at DG SANCO website |
| Report 2004 | |
| 28.6.2004 | Network services: Opening to competition improves performance, cuts prices and ensures quality |
| 23.6.2004 | Horizontal evaluation of the performance of network industries providing services of general economic interest
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| 12.2003 | Flash Eurobarometer 150 - "The quality of the services"   |
| Focus group survey on consumer satisfaction about Services of General Interest | |
| 18.6.2002 | Communication from the Commission: "A Methodological Note for the Horizontal Evaluation of Services of General Economic Interest" COM(2002)331
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Product and Capital Markets (Cardiff Report)
Reports
| 2002 | |
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| 23.12.2002 | EU needs to step up economic reform to reach its competitiveness objectives
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| 2001 | |
| 10.12.2001 | Further market reforms can help fight economic slowdown
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Market performance of network industries providing services of general economic interest
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| 2000-2001 | |
| 09.01.2001 | EU consumers continue to benefit, but reforms must be accelerated
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| 1999-2000 | |
| 27.01.2000 | Commission's product and capital markets report stresses opportunity for structural economic reform
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| 1998-1999 | |
| 20.01.1999 | Commission adopts report on economic reforms of product and capital markets
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Impact and effectiveness of the Internal Market
| 30.10.1996 | Communication on the Impact and Effectiveness of the Single Market         |
| Background document |
Other documents
| 05.2002 | Price differences for supermarket goods in Europe |
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Study on consumers perceptions and satisfaction with selected industries providing services of general economic interest in the 15 Member States
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| 01.2002 | Study to Analyse, Compare, and Apply Alternative Indicators and Monitoring Methodologies to Measure the Evolution of Capital Market Integration in the European Union
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| 05.2001 | Study on "Price dispersion in the Internal Market" |
| 01.2001 | Study on "Barriers to Trade in Business Services" - prepared for the use of the European Commission (Enterprise and Internal Market Directorate General)
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