New online platform to facilitate compliance of Member States with notification obligations

Today, the Commission is launching a new online platform to help reduce administrative burden and facilitate Member States' compliance with their notification obligations to the Commission under EU law. The new Single Notification Window will offer a single-entry point to a broad range of notification obligations relevant to the Single Market, without amending the substance of the existing notification procedures themselves. 

The Single Notification Window will gather relevant information about notification requirements in one place, including information on the legal act and legal basis, a summarised description of the Member States' notification obligations, as well as how to submit information to the Commission.

The scope of the Single Notification Window will cover more than 500 notification obligations – including for example those under the Single Market Transparency Directive, the Services Directive, the Energy Tax Directive or the Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts. The platform will not cover Member States' other reporting obligations, rapid alert systems, notification obligations in relation to EU competition rules, obligations to transpose or provisions on penalties.