Better lawmaking, single market: making rules more effective. Annual report 1997

The Commission has published a working paper proposing a number of practical measures which may help to speed up the rate of transposition of Directives into national law and to guarantee the quality of transposition legislation. It is also studying what else can be done to further efforts to improve the effective application of single market rules: - consultations with Member States with a view to developing new rules applicable to cooperation between authorities responsible for implementing legislation; - development of suitable mechanisms for mutual verification and examination of systems and legislation application procedures; - support for efforts made by Member States to train their officials; - support for administrative cooperation between officials in the different Member States.�