HC Deb 19 November 1990 vol 181 cc19-20W
Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list to the most recent available date the number of measures agreed by the EEC and not yet passed into legislation by each of the member states, in rank order.

Mr. Garel-Jones

Figures on the records of individual EC member states in implementing all EC directives are unfortunately not centralised. However, the Commission keeps centralised figures on the implementation of the proposals contained in the original White Paper for a single market. The latest Commission report, produced in October shows that of 107 measures due to be implemented by end 1990, the following measures remained unimplemented in the member states:

number
Denmark 15
United Kingdom 18
Germany 20
number
Portugal 20
Spain 27
France 28
Ireland 31
Belgium 32
Netherlands 33
Luxembourg 35
Greece 44
Italy 62

Further details are given in the Department of Trade and Industry's document, "The Single Market: progress on Commission White Paper", which is available in the Library of the House.