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Makin g legislation work better for citizens and business The IMI NETWORK

Makin g legislation work better for citizens and business The IMI NETWORK http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/ Bucharest, 23 rd June 2008 Presentation by Nicholas Leapman, HOU DG MARKT Unit E3. IMI - An information system to make legislation work better.

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Makin g legislation work better for citizens and business The IMI NETWORK

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  1. Making legislation work better for citizens and businessThe IMI NETWORK http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/ Bucharest, 23rd June 2008 Presentation by Nicholas Leapman, HOU DG MARKT Unit E3

  2. IMI - An information systemto make legislation work better • What is the Internal Market Information System (IMI)? • Why do we need an Internal Market Information System? • What benefits does IMI deliver? • How does IMI work? • The current status of IMI • IMI in the future

  3. 1. What is the Internal Market Information System (IMI)? • IMI is a multilingual electronic tool for exchange of information between Competent Authorities throughout the European Economic Area • IMI is developed by the European Commission in partnership with the Member States • IMI is financed and set up as a „Project of common interest" under the IDABC Work Programme (2005-2009) • IMI is currently in a pilot phase to support the information exchange as required by the Professional Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC)

  4. 1. What is the Internal Market Information System (IMI)? SV BG • IMI facilitates communication between public administrations at national, regional and local level • Competent Authorities of the 30 EEA Member States can contact each other via IMI IS CS NO DA FI DE SL ET SK RO EL PT IMI EN PL ES LI NL FR MT IT HU LV GA LT

  5. IMI is one system with customisedapplications for different Directives COMPETENT AUTHORITIES AND NATIONAL EXPERTS CADATA CADATA CADATA CADATA CADATA Informationexchange for Informationexchange for Informationexchange for Informationexchange for LANGUAGESUPPORT ....... PROFESSIONALQUALIFICATIONS SERVICES ....... QUESTIONS QUESTIONS QUESTIONS QUESTIONS QUESTION SET GENERATOR

  6. 2. Why do we need anInternal Market Information System? • Free movement of goods, services, people andcapital depends on a complex mixture of rules(EU and national level) • Ensuring compliance with the rules is the responsibility of public authorities at local, regional and national level across the European Economic Area (EEA) • Public authorities need to cooperate closely to ensure that the full benefits of the legal framework are delivered for citizens and businesses

  7. 2. Why do we need anInternal Market Information System? • Confidence and trust between administrations can only be established on the basis of contact and easy access to information • However there are many practical barriers to cooperation, such as language or administrative structures • Administrative cooperation will not happen spontaneously – it needs support, particularly in a larger more diverse Europe

  8. IMI does not impose additional obligations onMember States beyond those already contained in internal market legislation Revised Directive on Professional Qualifications (2005/36/EC) Article 8 - Administrative cooperation Article 50 - Documentation and formalities Article 56 - Competent Authorities Services Directive (2006/123/EC) Articles 28-36 in particular articles 34.1, 36and recital 112 Administrative cooperation - The legal obligations

  9. 3. What benefits does IMI deliver? For Member States For Competent Authorities • Easy to use and flexible • No new legal obligations • A single system to manage • Easy access to information • More transparent process • Greater efficiency For European Commission For migrating professionals • Lower costs, Faster development • Easy to support new legislative areas • More transparent process • Faster response by administrations

  10. 3. What benefits does IMI deliver? Result: • Exchange of information at all levels of administration across EU becomes possible • Secure and reliable system which allows complex problems to be dealt with quickly • Single system to support different pieces of Internal Market legislation

  11. 4. How does IMI work?Actors and roles in IMI • European Commission • develops, maintains and runs IMI (data centre Luxembourg) • provides translations • central Helpdesk • Competent Authorities (CAs) • find relevant Competent Authorities in another Member State • exchange information with this CA in other Member State • administer data and users of their authority in IMI

  12. 4. How does IMI work?Actors and roles in IMI • IMI Coordinators (NIMIC, SDIMIC, DIMIC) • technical/ administrative coordination, e.g. registration and support of CAs (help desk) • functional coordination – by choice • act as CA and exchange information through IMI with other CAs

  13. Language barriers – 23 official EU languages Lack of clearly identified partners in other Member States Different administrative structures and cultures Lack of administrative procedures for crossborder cooperation Management of 351 bilateral relationships in EU-27 4. How does IMI work?System functionality IMI supports cooperation between MS administrations by addressing the following problems:

  14. IMI works in all official EU languages

  15. Language barriers – 23 official EU languages Lack of clearly identified partners in other Member States Different administrative structures and cultures Lack of administrative procedures for crossborder cooperation Management of 351 bilateral relationships in EU-27 4. How does IMI work? IMI supports cooperation between MS administrations by addressing the following problems:

  16. Identifying partners in IMI

  17. Identifying partners in IMI

  18. Identifying partners in IMI

  19. Language barriers – 23 official EU languages Lack of clearly identified partners in other Member States Different administrative structures and cultures Lack of administrative procedures for crossborder cooperation Management of 351 bilateral relationships in EU-27 4. How does IMI work? IMI supports cooperation between MS administrations by addressing the following problems:

  20. Flexibility for MSto organise themselves as they wish EC European Commission – IMI Administration - EC IMI Helpdesk - Member State 3 e.g. a Member State with federal structure Member State 1 Member State 2 MemberStates NIMIC NIMIC- helpdesk - NIMIC- helpdesk - Federal State 1 Federal State ...16 RegionalLevel SDIMIC 1 SDIMIC 16 DIMIC 1- helpdesk - DIMIC 2- helpdesk - DIMIC 1- helpdesk - DIMIC 2- helpdesk - Functional Level CA CA CA CA CA Competent Authorities CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA

  21. Flexibility for MS - Competent Authorities may contact each other directly via IMI Member State 2 Member State 1 IMICoordinator IMI Coordinator REQUEST Competent Authority Competent Authority REPLY

  22. Flexibility for MS - A MS may decide to directall requests via the Coordinator of the CA Member State 2 Member State 1 IMICoordinator IMI Coordinator REQUEST REQUEST SUBJECT TO APPROVAL Competent Authority Competent Authority REPLY

  23. Flexibility for MS - A MS may decide to direct all replies via the Coordinator of the CA Member State 2 Member State 1 IMICoordinator IMI Coordinator REPLY REPLY SUBJECT TO APPROVAL Competent Authority Competent Authority REQUEST

  24. Flexibility for MS – It is possible that bothrequests and replies are sent via Coordinators Member State 2 Member State 1 IMICoordinator IMI Coordinator REPLY REQUEST REQUEST REPLY SUBJECT TO APPROVAL SUBJECT TO APPROVAL Competent Authority Competent Authority

  25. Language barriers – 23 official EU languages Lack of clearly identified partners in other Member States Different administrative structures and cultures Lack of administrative procedures for crossborder cooperation Management of 351 bilateral relationships in EU-27 4. How does IMI work? IMI supports cooperation between MS administrations by addressing the following problems:

  26. Member States have agreedthe flow of information for a request in IMI 4. REQUEST CLOSEDINFORMATIONPROVIDED The simple workflow of a request in IMI consists of REQUESTING CA REQUESTING CA Accept provided information Create and send new request 4 steps only 1. REQUEST SENTAWAITINGACCEPTANCE RESPONDING CA 2. 3. RESPONDING CA REQUESTACCEPTED REQUEST OPENINFORMATIONPROVIDED Provide full information Acceptrequest

  27. Member States have agreedthe flow of information for a request in IMI

  28. Member States have agreedon the questions which can be asked in IMI

  29. Member States can monitor IMIto make sure that replies are on time

  30. Language barriers – 23 official EU languages Lack of clearly identified partners in other Member States Different administrative structures and cultures Lack of administrative procedures for crossborder cooperation Management of 351 bilateral relationships in EU-27 4. How does IMI work? IMI supports cooperation between MS administrations by addressing the following problems:

  31. MS manage single relationship with the IMI network instead of 26 bilateral relationships SV BG IS CS NO DA FI DE SL ET SK RO EL PT EN PL ES LI NL FR MT IT HU LV GA LT

  32. 5. The current status of IMI IMI pilot for Professional Qualifications • 4 Professions are involved (doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists and accountants) • IMI was launched in November 2007 for the registration of Competent Authorities • Since February 2008 IMI has been supporting the exchange of information required by the revised Professional Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC)

  33. 5. The current status of IMI IMI pilot for Professional Qualifications • The aim of the pilot project • Test IMI application with real data and real information exchanges • Put in place organisational structures in Member States for large-scale roll-out • Set up the necessary support structures for the project

  34. 6. IMI in the future Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 2 Phase 3 Technically possible to extend IMI to further professions Pilot Information Exchange (PQ): 4 professions Pilot Services Directive, until fully operational IMI fully operational for PQ 2008 2009 2010 • 4 participatingprofessions • 30 EEA states • 332 CAs • 526 users 30 EEA statesif 100 professionsin IMI, then at least3 000 Competent Authorities • Decentralisedresponsibilities for services • 30 EEA states withapproximately 93 000local and regionalCompetent Authorities • 100 000 potentialCompetent Authoritiesat full maturity

  35. IMI in the future - The next stage Extension in the area of Professional Qualifications • Extending IMI to other Professions • Proposed approach : • preference for the 5 additional sectoral professions • preference for additional professions with significant migration rates • Preference for professions regulated in more Member States • general opening of system to other professions (timetable to be decided by Member States)

  36. 6. IMI in the future IMI to support the Services Directive After Professional Qualifications Services will be added to IMI as a legislative area

  37. Pilot to start January 2009 January and February 2009– start registering additional Competent Authorities for Services Directive March to 27th December – standard information exchange pilot July to 27th December – self registration pilot for Competent Authorities Q4 2009 – pilot case by case and alert mechanism 28th December 2009 – Services Directive application operational 6. IMI in the future Proposed timetable for the Services Directive pilot

  38. Thank you for your attention For further information of any question, please contact: markt-imi@ec.europa.eu IMI Website :http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/imi-net/

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