The consumer markets scoreboard.

Abstract

The Consumer Markets Scoreboard was created in order to iden-tify which consumer markets are not delivering the economic and social outcomes expected by consumers, to track the progress in the integration of the EU retail market and to monitor the national consumer environ-ment. The Scoreboard is an essential component of the market monitoring approach1 developed by the Commission to identify where action is needed to fulfi l the commitment made by the Commission President "...to ensure that the benefi ts of the internal market get through to the fi nal consumer2.