Single Market Strategy
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Summary
The Single Market Strategy addresses obstacles to operating, trading and working across EU borders. It combines simplification and stronger implementation with changes to company rules, public procurement, product regulation and services. Digital procedures, common standards and better recognition of qualifications are intended to reduce fragmentation. The strategy also covers worker mobility, construction and business services, communications networks and transport. Measures for SMEs and small mid-caps seek to make compliance more proportionate and improve access to markets and finance. Cooperation with national authorities and potential changes to preventive and enforcement tools support the wider programme.
Action items
1–6 of 51 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1D · Digital dimension
Adopt simplification omnibus packages to reduce unnecessary burden to safeguard effective implementation of policy objectives such as the Digital Omnibus aimed at streamlining and simplifying certain elements of the EU digital acquis and the Omnibus to ease compliance with Extended Producer Responsibility obligations (ongoing)
- Item 2D · Digital dimension
Competitiveness Checks during the impact assessment phase to ensure Single Market consistency and further innovation (ongoing)
- Item 3D · Digital dimension
Review of national and European agencies in the field of the Single Market with a view to effective application of the law (Q1 2026)
- Item 4D · Digital dimension
Revise the Public Procurement framework to centralise and streamline its fragmented and complex provisions, and to mainstream the use of sustainability, resilience, social and, in certain technologies and strategic sectors, European preference criteria in EU public procurement while ensuring competitive tenders (2026)
- Item 5D · Digital dimension
In coordination with the revision of the Public Procurement framework, revise the Directive on defence and sensitive security procurements19 to simplify and harmonise rules and procedures for defence procurements and to take into account a possible European preference (2026)
- Item 6D · Digital dimension
Call a first meeting of the high-level Single Market Sherpas (Q4 2025)