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“EU wants to better prepare internal market for times of crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented the EU with major challenges. With a new emergency instrument, the member states want to better prepare the EU internal market for crises and supply chain difficulties in future. To this end, they adopted the Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act on Friday.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-equips-single-market-for-crisis-management/

As announced by the Federal Ministry of Economics, the regulation is intended to strengthen the ability to act in future crises. To this end, the Act improves transparency and the exchange of information between member states, the EU Commission and companies. Crisis protocols, stress tests and simulations should enable the EU to take coordinated action in a future crisis. Secondly, in the event of a crisis, certain uncoordinated national measures that impair the internal market are to be prohibited in future.

In order to counter supply bottlenecks, the EU Commission, with the involvement of the member states, can also request information from companies that is required to overcome the crisis and recommend the production of certain crisis-relevant and strategically important goods for the EU. The Act also provides for adjustments to the harmonized procedures for standardization, conformity assessment and market surveillance for crisis-relevant goods in order to be able to place them on the market more quickly in the event of a crisis. Finally, the EU Commission could procure necessary products and services centrally at the request of the member states or together with them.

Following today's decision by the EU Member States, the Single Market Emergency Instrument still has to be formally adopted by the European Parliament.”