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Recommendations have another prominent place in the hierarchy of EU policy instruments and have been issued on various issues, including the transposition of EU legislation across Member States. At consecutive EU summits, the European Council has repeatedly urged Member States to accord high priority to the national implementation into national law of directives affecting the Single Market. Recognizing the importance of a properly functioning Single Market for the competitiveness of the European economy, the Commission has expressed concern about the poor Member States’ implementation records. Given the importance of full compliance and the repetitive nature of Member States’ failure to do so, in 2004, the Commission (2004e: 9) more specifically urged for the first time ‘Member Sates to re-examine their administrative procedures and practices to ensure that they consistently meet this legal obligation’.
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Note that you can think about convergence in a ‘broad’ and in a ‘strict’ sense. In the strict sense one can speak of convergence if a decrease in the dissimilarities between cases over time is observable. In a broader sense, one can speak of convergence if considerable similarities between cases are observable. In the following, this study will ask the question of ‘whether there is convergence’ in both senses of the term.
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Next to information about the background and legal base of the Commission proposal, the fiche includes an assessment of the impact of the proposal on the French legal order, the relevance of the proposal to France and the initial position of the government, based on the discussions between the line ministries and the SGCI, on the proposal.
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Kaeding, M. (2013). Implementing Recommendations across Member States. In: Towards an Effective European Single Market. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19684-8_5
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