MEPs adopted a resolution which stresses that Member States must formally accept tougher transposition goals. According the European Parliament, it will be also necessary an independent internal market prosecutor with the power to institute infringement proceedings.

MEPs adopted a resolution presenting response to the Commission's 2011 Internal Market Scoreboard published in March 2011, which shows that although Member States have reduced the share of EU directives long overdue for transposition into national laws, the overall share of overdue directives, known as the "transposition deficit", still averages 1.2%, despite the 1% target agreed by Heads of State and governments in 2007. MEPs worry that this hinders economic recovery.

They therefore call in the resolution for fast-track infringement procedures. In addition, in the past few months as many as seven Member States have fallen even further behind in the transposing of EU directives. The share of incorrectly-transposed ones still averages 0.8%. Thus, besides further reducing the current transposition deficit, MEPs insist that Member States must formally accept tougher transposition goals, which would limit both the transposition and the compliance deficits to 0.5% each.

On the other hand, they also call for using transparency and better monitoring as tools to improve implementation, more information is needed on the quality of transposition. Moreover, MEPs calls for an independent internal market prosecutor with the power to institute infringement proceedings. They underlines that he/she should have sufficient independence to institute infringement proceedings free from political pressure.