# One Europe, One Market Roadmap Canonical URL: https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/one-europe-one-market-roadmap Entry type: initiative Source edition current through: 17 July 2026 (2026-07-17). This is not a page modification date. Status: delivered. A delivered initiative is not necessarily legislation in force. Instrument: Joint Declaration Date as recorded: 24 Apr 2026 Date kind: date Status note: full date links only to published artifact types Promised timeline: Planned for Q1 2026. Record content updated: 2026-08-14 ## Summary The Commission will set milestones to finish the Single Market where it matters most (i.e. capital, services, energy and telecoms) while advancing a 28th regime and a ‘fifth freedom’ for knowledge and innovation. The roadmap will tackle the “Terrible Ten” barriers, codify digital-by-default procedures, and use the Competitiveness Coordination Tool to align national reforms and EU investment. A delivery scoreboard will track progress, backed by faster infringement action and “once-only” data sharing for firms. Measures include deepening the Capital Markets/Savings & Investment Union, grid and interconnector build-out, the Digital Networks Act, and service-sector opening, turning commitments into measurable outcomes. ## Sources - [Official source]() ## Action items (47; complete published list) ### 1. Action item 140001 1. Simplifying rules Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 1. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 2. Action item 140002 Omnibus packages (Proposals: Throughout 2025) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 2. Digital dimension: yes. ### 3. Action item 140003 Omnibus VII – Digital (AI) (Proposal: Q4 2025) Jun 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 3. Digital dimension: yes. ### 4. Action item 140004 Omnibus in the area of taxation (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 4. Digital dimension: yes. ### 5. Action item 140005 Omnibus in the area of energy products (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 5. Digital dimension: yes. ### 6. Action item 140007 2. A more integrated Single Market Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 7. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 7. Action item 140008 EU Inc. (Proposal: Q1 2026) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 8. Digital dimension: yes. ### 8. Action item 140009 E-declaration for posting of workers (Proposal: Q4 2024) Jun 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 9. Digital dimension: yes. ### 9. Action item 140010 EU securitisation framework (Proposal: Q2 2025) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 10. Digital dimension: yes. ### 10. Action item 140011 Supplementary pensions package (Proposal: Q4 2025) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 11. Digital dimension: yes. ### 11. Action item 140012 Market integration and Supervision package (Proposal: Q4 2025) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 12. Digital dimension: yes. ### 12. Action item 140013 Industrial Accelerator Act (Proposal: Q1 2026) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 13. Digital dimension: yes. ### 13. Action item 140014 Review of merger control guidelines End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 14. Digital dimension: yes. ### 14. Action item 140015 Public Procurement Act (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 15. Digital dimension: yes. ### 15. Action item 140016 Critical Raw Materials Centre (Proposal: Q2 2026) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 16. Digital dimension: yes. ### 16. Action item 140017 European Products Act (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 17. Digital dimension: yes. ### 17. Action item 140018 European Research Area Act (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 18. Digital dimension: yes. ### 18. Action item 140019 Circular Economy Act (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q3 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 19. Digital dimension: yes. ### 19. Action item 140020 Fair labour mobility package (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q3 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 20. Digital dimension: yes. ### 20. Action item 140021 Skills Portability Initiative (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q3 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 21. Digital dimension: yes. ### 21. Action item 140022 Review of the Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation (Proposal: by Q4 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 22. Digital dimension: yes. ### 22. Action item 140023 Report on competitiveness of banking sector Jul 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 23. Digital dimension: yes. ### 23. Action item 140024 Amendments to the banking framework (Proposal: by Q1 2027) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 24. Digital dimension: yes. ### 24. Action item 140026 3. Championing strong trade Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 26. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 25. Action item 140027 Trade agreements with Mexico, Mercosur, Switzerland, Indonesia, India, and Australia Rolling basis Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 27. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 26. Action item 140028 Trade agreements with Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates Throughout 2026-27 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 28. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 27. Action item 140029 Proposal on addressing supply chain dependencies (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q4 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 29. Digital dimension: yes. ### 28. Action item 140030 Proposal for a revised FDI screening regulation (Proposal: Q1 2024) Q2 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 30. Digital dimension: yes. ### 29. Action item 140032 4. Reducing energy prices and decarbonising Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 32. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 30. Action item 140033 European Grids package (Proposal: Q4 2025) Q3 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 33. Digital dimension: yes. ### 31. Action item 140034 Energy Highways (Proposal for investment projects: Q4 2025) April 2026 onwards (Launch of projects) Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 34. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 32. Action item 140035 Amendment to the Market Stability Reserve (Proposal: Q2 2026) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 35. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 33. Action item 140036 Network charges and taxation (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q2 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 36. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 34. Action item 140037 Energy security package (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q2 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 37. Digital dimension: yes. ### 35. Action item 140038 ETS review (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q1 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 38. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 36. Action item 140039 Update of the governance of the Energy Union (Proposal: Q4 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 39. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 37. Action item 140040 Setting-up of the energy efficiency framework (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 40. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 38. Action item 140041 Setting-up of the renewable energy framework (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 41. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 39. Action item 140043 5. Driving the digital and AI transformation Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 43. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 40. Action item 140044 Digital Euro (Proposal: Q2 2023) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 44. Digital dimension: yes. ### 41. Action item 140045 European Business Wallet (Proposal: Q4 2025) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 45. Digital dimension: yes. ### 42. Action item 140046 Digital Networks Act (Proposal: Q1 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 46. Digital dimension: yes. ### 43. Action item 140047 EU Cybersecurity Act (Proposal: Q1 2026) End 2026 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 47. Digital dimension: yes. ### 44. Action item 140048 Cloud and AI Development Act (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q4 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 48. Digital dimension: yes. ### 45. Action item 140049 Chips Act 2 (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q2 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 49. Digital dimension: yes. ### 46. Action item 140050 Quantum Act (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q3 2027 Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 50. Digital dimension: yes. ### 47. Action item 140051 AI Gigafactories (Proposal for investment projects: Q2 2026) Q4 2026 onwards (Launch of projects) Provenance: source document doc-013, paragraph 51. Digital dimension: yes. ## Referenced entries - [Quantum Act]() — status: forthcoming. The Act will make the Quantum Europe Strategy operational, fixing fragmentation by aligning EU and national programmes around a shared RTI agenda and targets. It sets EU-level governance and extends the Chips Joint Undertaking’s remit to quantum technologies, coordinating investments across EU programmes. It anchors a three-stage pipeline—Discover; Lab-to-fab via pilot lines, design tools and standards; Apply & use in lead sectors, while scaling pan-European infrastructures in quantum computing, secure communication (EuroQCI) and sensing. The Act backs skills and industrialisation, strengthens supply chains. It also drives standardisation and interoperability and fosters talent attraction. Source document doc-013, action item 140050: > Quantum Act (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q3 2027 - [Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA)]() — status: in progress. This law will close Europe’s compute gap by tripling data-centre capacity within 5–7 years and meeting economy-wide needs by 2035, underpinning AI development and sovereign cloud services. It will harmonise cloud policy, set minimum criteria (including for a narrow set of highly critical use cases run on highly secure EU-based cloud), and streamline permitting, site designation and access to energy/water, ensuring geographically balanced rollout. The Act will spur R&I in resource-efficient data centres, enable targeted support consistent with State-aid rules, and complement AI Factories/Gigafactories and the Chips Act ecosystem. Source document doc-013, action item 140048: > Cloud and AI Development Act (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q4 2027 - [Digital Networks Act (DNA)]() — status: in progress. This law will build a true Single Market for connectivity by harmonising authorisations and spectrum policy, enabling cross-border services and a coordinated path to 6G. It modernises the telecom rulebook to spur investment in fibre, 5G and cloud/edge networks, integrates satellite services, and tackles market fragmentation that keeps Europe split into various national markets. It will streamline permits, clarify open-internet rules for innovative services, support copper switch-off and cloud-based network transformation, and target up to a 50% reduction in reporting burdens. A stronger EU governance model will replace patchwork oversight, boosting resilience, security and scale for operators and users. Source document doc-013, action item 140046: > Digital Networks Act (Proposal: Q1 2026) Q4 2027 - [European Grids Package]() — status: delivered. The European Grid Package will fast-track expansion and modernisation of transmission and distribution networks, deepening market integration and lowering bills. It streamlines TEN-E, accelerates permitting — including environmental assessments — and mandates integrated, cross-border planning with effective cost-sharing, focusing on interconnectors and distribution grids. It prioritises digitalisation, flexibility and efficient use of existing assets, while increasing visibility of manufacturing supply needs. An EIB “grids manufacturing package” (≈€1.5 bn) will underpin EU component capacity, and an “Energy Highways” effort will tackle critical bottlenecks. Together, the measures unlock renewables and storage, strengthen security of supply, and support electrification at least cost. Source document doc-013, action item 140033: > European Grids package (Proposal: Q4 2025) Q3 2026 - [AI Gigafactories]() — status: forthcoming. AI Gigafactories will give Europe frontier-scale compute to train state-of-the-art models. Each site will exceed 100,000 high-performance processors, be designed for energy and water efficiency and circularity, and be federated with EuroHPC’s AI Factories. Financing will blend public-private partnerships with the InvestAI Facility and an official EuroHPC call in Q4 2025. Facilities will co-locate data, training, safety and evaluation capabilities; provide shared access for startups, researchers and the public sector; and anchor regional skills pipelines. As a pilot for the Competitiveness Coordination Tool, they will crowd-in private capital, spur EU AI-chip design ahead of the 2026 Chips Act review, and secure sovereign AI capacity. Source document doc-013, action item 140051: > AI Gigafactories (Proposal for investment projects: Q2 2026) Q4 2026 onwards (Launch of projects) - [Industrial Accelerator Act]() — status: in progress. This Act will accelerate industrial decarbonisation by clearing permitting bottlenecks, strengthening clean-product demand and de-risking investment. It streamlines access to energy and infrastructure (i.e. building on NZIA, TEN-E and the emergency permitting toolbox) through acceleration areas, one-stop shops and, where allowed, tacit approvals, while maintaining environmental safeguards. It introduces resilience and sustainability criteria (clean, circular, cybersecure) across EU/national programmes and procurement, and pilots a simple carbon-intensity label—starting with steel in 2025, followed by cement—to unlock targeted incentives and enable international alignment. Coupled with the Clean Industrial Deal and related affordability measures, it aims to lower costs, shorten lead times and scale EU clean manufacturing, with a legislative proposal. Source document doc-013, action item 140013: > Industrial Accelerator Act (Proposal: Q1 2026) End 2026 - [Public Procurement Act]() — status: forthcoming. The Commission will overhaul the EU procurement framework to make public spending a strategic lever for competitiveness, security and innovation. The revision will enable sustainability, resilience and European-preference criteria in strategic sectors, while staying consistent with EU and international commitments. It will simplify and digitise procedures, embed once-only data reuse, curb overspecification, and promote innovation-friendly tools (e.g. outcome-based/R&D purchases, clearer IP clauses). Rules will be consolidated across legislation to ease use by all administrations and open tenders to startups and SMEs. Defence and security procurement will be modernised and cross-border aggregation strengthened to create lead markets and scale. Source document doc-013, action item 140015: > Public Procurement Act (Proposal: Q2 2026) Q4 2027 - [Fair Labour Mobility Package]() — status: forthcoming. The Package will remove frictions to cross-border work while safeguarding rights, making Europe’s labour market more efficient. It will propose a European Social Security Pass for digital verification of entitlements, streamline posting procedures, and clarify social-security coordination for cross-border remote work. The package will strengthen the European Labour Authority’s mandate and data capabilities to improve enforcement and joint inspections. A Skills Portability Initiative will simplify recognition of qualifications and interoperable digital credentials, including for third-country nationals. Together, these measures cut administrative burden for employers and workers, enable service provision, and support talent circulation across the Single Market. Source document doc-013, action item 140020: > Fair labour mobility package (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q3 2027 - [Skills Portability Initiative (SPI)]() — status: forthcoming. The initiative will remove barriers to cross-border work by making skills and qualifications usable across the Single Market. It will consider a legislative proposal to ease mobility and promote common EU formats for interoperable digital credentials, building on EQF, Europass and ESCO. Recognition in regulated professions will be expanded and modernised using digital tools, while simpler common rules will be explored to recognise third-country nationals’ skills. In parallel, the EU will develop a framework for automatic recognition of qualifications and learning periods in school, VET and higher education, and examine accession to the Lisbon Recognition Convention. Source document doc-013, action item 140021: > Skills Portability Initiative (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q3 2027 - [Circular Economy Act (CEA)]() — status: forthcoming. The Act will create a true Single Market for waste and secondary raw materials, boosting supply and demand for quality recyclates at competitive prices. It will harmonise end-of-waste criteria, simplify and expand extended producer responsibility (including a one-stop producer registry), and revise e-waste rules to recover critical materials, while aligning with the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products framework. Public procurement criteria, incentives for scrap use, and digitalised demolition permits will accelerate circular design and recycling. Strong enforcement—including for e-commerce channels—will ensure compliance. Source document doc-013, action item 140019: > Circular Economy Act (Proposal: Q3 2026) Q3 2027 - [European Business Wallet]() — status: in progress. It will provide a legally recognised digital identity for economic operators, enabling companies to share verified data and credentials across borders and receive notifications in a secure channel. Built on BRIS and the European Unique Identifier, and aligned with the EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout and the Once-Only Technical System, it replaces document-heavy compliance with interoperable, data-based exchanges. The Wallet is a cornerstone of the Single Market simplification agenda and the EU Startup & Scaleup Strategy, lowering costs for SMEs, easing licensing and reporting, and making cross-border operations seamless, turning digital-by-default rules into practice across the EU business lifecycle. Source document doc-013, action item 140045: > European Business Wallet (Proposal: Q4 2025) End 2026 ## Current developments Latest updates from Digital Policy Alert and Global Trade Alert. No reviewed developments available; this does not establish that no developments exist. ## Associated policy priorities - [Single Market Deepening & Harmonisation]() ## Broader policy context (shared priority; not a direct citation) - [Action Plan against Cyberbullying]() — status: delivered. The Commission will present a comprehensive EU approach to prevent, detect and respond to cyberbullying, with a primary focus on minors and youth. It will set a common EU definition, promote national strategies and focal points (e.g. trusted flaggers), and prioritise vulnerable groups including girls and women, LGBTIQ youth, migrants and persons with disabilities. Actions span prevention and digital well-being, safer product design, streamlined reporting and takedown (scaling good practices like France’s App 3018), victim support, and proportionate responses to perpetrators. Delivery will leverage and enforce the DSA, BIK+ and victims/VAW directives, with progress monitored through Safer Internet Centres, BIK policy reports and DSA enforcement. - [AVMSD Revision]() — status: forthcoming. The Commission will run the AVMSD ex-post evaluation under Article 33 by 19 December 2026, followed, where appropriate, by proposals to review the Directive. Council conclusions (May 2025) suggested key reform priorities: clarify scope (incl. influencers/professional creators), ensure coherent interplay with DSA/EMFA, strengthen protection of minors and rules for VSPs, safeguard prominence/access to general-interest content and major events, and improve cross-border enforcement through the new European Board for Media Services. The exercise should keep the Single Market as the anchor (country-of-origin), avoid overlapping obligations, and de-risk regulatory fragmentation via clear definitions and digital-by-default, once-only procedures. - [Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation (CPCR) Reform]() — status: forthcoming. The Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation provides a framework for national authorities to work together on cross-border breaches of consumer rules. The authorities can seek information from domain registrars and banks, use mystery shopping, and order the immediate removal of websites hosting scams. The Commission coordinates cooperation and can coordinate EU-wide action, while authorities may accept business commitments to correct practices and provide remedies and compensation. - [Cybersecurity Act 2 & Simplification Package]() — status: in progress. Cybersecurity Act 2 would repeal the current Cybersecurity Act and reform ENISA, the European cybersecurity certification framework and ICT supply-chain security rules. The proposal aims to strengthen EU cyber capabilities and resilience, improve coordinated governance, speed certification schemes and reduce fragmented compliance requirements. It would provide a harmonised framework for non-technical ICT supply-chain risks, including measures addressing high-risk suppliers, while a related directive would simplify scope, definitions, ransomware reporting and supervision of cross-border service providers. - [Digital Fairness Act (DFA)]() — status: forthcoming. Based on a fitness check of EU consumer law in 2024, the Commission plans to propose a Digital Fairness Act that curbs manipulative design (“dark patterns”), addictive features and subscription traps; clarifies rules for influencer and AI-driven marketing; strengthens protections for minors; and streamlines information duties so consumers face less overload and can cancel easily. Options include amending the Unfair Commercial Practices and Consumer Rights directives or proposing a new regulation, ensuring coherence with the DSA, DMA and the AI Act. It will drive harmonised, high-impact enforcement with clear duties for platforms and advertisers, easy redress for consumers, and deterrent penalties. - [e-Declaration for the Posting of Workers]() — status: in progress. The proposed e-Declaration would create a voluntary multilingual public interface linked to the Internal Market Information System for posting-worker declarations. Participating host Member States could require service providers from other Member States to use a standard electronic form, with data transferred automatically to national authorities. The proposal aims to reduce administrative burden, improve administrative cooperation and inspections, and support protection of posted workers' rights without changing the underlying posting framework. - [E-commerce Toolbox]() — status: delivered. The E-commerce Toolbox combines customs, product-safety, consumer, digital and market-surveillance measures for online retail. It calls for progress on customs reform and proposes controls on imports shipped directly to consumers, coordinated enforcement and safety actions. The Commission also plans action on product passports, interoperable enforcement databases, web crawlers, marketplace cooperation, consumer awareness, professional training, cooperation with countries of origin and investigation of possible dumping or illegal subsidisation. - [Energy Labelling Omnibus]() — status: in progress. On 24 June 2026 the Commission proposed a regulation simplifying the EU rules on energy labelling and tyre labelling, one of its omnibus simplification packages. The Commission says the simplified rules will make requirements easier for suppliers and retailers of home appliances, electronic devices and tyres, while ensuring that consumers still receive the information they need when buying a product. The proposal keeps the energy labelling framework, which the Commission says has proven effective in reducing energy use, and streamlines the rules to make them easier to apply, cut costs and facilitate enforcement. It widens digital options, such as electronic shelf displays, a QR code in related documentation or on the product, and displaying the label as part of the contractual offer. The Commission estimates administrative savings of up to €125 million annually over the next 10 years. Some newer labels, including those for smartphones, will also give information on durability and repairability. - [EU Action Plan on Online Fraud]() — status: forthcoming. The EU Action Plan on Online Fraud is a forthcoming Commission initiative announced in the 2030 Consumer Agenda and action plan for consumers in the single market, adopted on 19 November 2025. The Commission says online fraud schemes are among the fastest growing crimes online and are causing significant harm to consumers. To strengthen the ability to combat online fraud in the EU, it will publish an action plan on online fraud. Its goals will include boosting prevention measures, making law enforcement action more effective and strengthening support for fraud victims in recovering their funds. The Consumer Agenda does not give a date for the action plan's publication. - [EU Digital Travel Application]() — status: in progress. The EU Digital Travel application would let travellers create a digital travel credential and submit travel data for checks before reaching an external border. The proposal aims to reduce bottlenecks while helping border authorities verify documents, identity and security risks in advance. It provides for single or repeated use, secure validation against the travel document's chip and possible storage in the European Digital Identity Wallet. - [EU Inc. – 28th Regime]() — status: in progress. It will create an optional, EU-wide corporate framework—digital by default—to let innovative firms set up, operate, and raise capital seamlessly across borders. The proposal may rely on TFEU Article 352 or a harmonised national form via Articles 50/114, with a progressive, modular design. It targets 48-hour incorporation and “once-only” data sharing via BRIS, EUID, and an EU Company Certificate, leveraging the European Business Wallet. Investment-friendly options under consideration include simpler capital increases, flexible share classes, and standard private-equity terms. Complementing the European Innovation Act, it cuts failure costs, fragmentation, and compliance burdens. - [European Product Act (EPA)]() — status: forthcoming. The European Product Act would update three parts of EU product law: the new legislative framework of product rules, market surveillance and compliance, and standardisation. The Commission work programme 2026 schedules the legislative measures for Q3 2026. It cites Article 114 TFEU for the framework and standardisation updates, and Articles 33 and 114 TFEU for market surveillance and compliance. - [MDR/IVDR Reform]() — status: in progress. The MDR/IVDR reform proposal seeks a leaner, less costly framework for medical devices and in vitro diagnostic devices while retaining a high level of patient health protection. It would improve oversight and coordination of notified bodies, widen the expertise and advisory role of expert panels, and provide further support through the European Medicines Agency. The proposal also aims to improve the single market and reduce risks of device shortages. - [Multimodal Digital Mobility Services]() — status: in progress. The proposed Regulation on multimodal booking aims to make it easier for travellers to search for, compare, combine and book travel options across transport modes. It would set common requirements for multimodal digital mobility services, including neutral display and ranking, marketing-information data, emissions information and certain data sharing. The proposal excludes SMEs from its scope, repeals the computerised-reservation-systems code of conduct, and provides for national enforcement, complaints, penalties, monitoring and reporting. - [Omnibus IV (mid-caps)]() — status: in progress. The Commission will fast-track simplification by empowering common technical specifications when harmonised standards lag, and by digitalising compliance so firms can demonstrate conformity faster and paper-free. The package also extends existing SME mitigating measures to small mid-caps and removes redundant paper requirements in product laws, easing conformity assessment and cutting reporting overlaps. Together with the Single Market Strategy, it targets quicker time-to-market, legal certainty and lower costs while maintaining high safety and consumer protection. Delivery will be tied to measurable burden-reduction targets and periodic scorecards so businesses see real, near-term gains in every Member State. - [Single Digital Booking and Ticketing]() — status: in progress. The Commission will propose an EU framework enabling passengers to buy a single ticket for cross-border rail journeys across multiple operators, with passengers’ rights applying across the whole trip. It will mandate interoperable data and open, non-discriminatory APIs for schedules, fares and reservation systems; ensure through-ticketing, real-time disruption information and seamless refunds/re-routing; and set governance for liability, revenue settlement and dispute resolution. The initiative complements paperless mobility actions and aims to make rail a convenient, default choice for long-distance travel while boosting tourism and Single Market integration. - [Single Market Barriers Prevention Act]() — status: forthcoming. The EU will move from reacting to fragmentation to preventing it at source. Building on the Single Market Strategy, the Act would systematise ex-ante screening of draft national measures, reinforce notification/transparency obligations, and require Member States to self-assess EU-law compliance before adoption, curbing “gold-plating.” It would hard-wire a competitiveness/SME check for significant amendments, introduce rapid-reaction deadlines to fix non-compliant rules, and align agencies and regulators to ensure uniform application. Annual progress reporting and more decisive infringement where needed will anchor accountability, complemented by a shift to digital-by-default administration and a “1-in, 27-out” simplification ethos to keep new barriers from emerging. --- [Reading guide and interpretation notes]() · [Methodology]()