The consumer conditions scoreboard. Consumers at home in the single market.

Abstract

The purpose of the Consumer Scoreboards is to identify whether consumer markets are working for consumers, to track the integration of the retail single market and to monitor national consumer conditions. The Scoreboard contributes to monitoring the commitment made by President Barroso "...to ensure that the benefits of the single market get through to the final consumer" 1 and to the implementation of the consumer part of Guideline 6 of the EU 2020 integrated guidelines on improving the busi-ness and consumer environment "Member States should ensure that markets work for citizens, consumers and businesses. While ensuring the protection of consumers, Member States and the Union should ... ensure well-functioning, open and competitive goods and services markets."2. The Commission’s Annual Growth Survey Report on EU2020 progress also identified consumer conditions among the "growth drivers or framework conditions to growth"3