Internal market information system

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The Internal Market Information System (IMI) is an IT-based network for the exchange of information between public bodies in the European Economic Area . It was developed by the European Commission together with the Member States of the European Union in order to simplify and accelerate administrative cooperation across borders. IMI enables public administrations at local, regional and national level to find their contacts in other countries and to exchange information with them in their own language. This is achieved with the help of pre-translated standard questions and answers as well as machine translation .

For example, if a French authority needs to review the diploma of a Finnish nurse who wants to work in France, the authority can identify the competent Finnish authority from all the authorities registered in IMI. She then chooses the question she wants to ask from a catalog of pre-translated questions and sends it through IMI. The Finnish authority sees the question and the corresponding answer options in Finnish. The answer is again displayed in French to the French authorities.

The development of IMI was funded under the IDABC program.

The IMI is designed as a flexible system that can be used for many areas of the internal market. It is currently used in all member states of the European Economic Area for administrative cooperation in accordance with the Directive on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications ( Directive 2005/36 / EC ) and the Services Directive (2006/123 / EC) . IMI is currently being expanded to include other legal areas.

The European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Michel Barnier , has expressed the view that IMI could develop into a "Facebook for the Internal Market".

Web links

  • Regulation 2012/1024 / EU (PDF) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on administrative cooperation using the internal market information system and repealing Commission Decision 2008/49 / EC ("IMI Regulation"), Official Journal of the European Union L 316/1, November 14, 2012
  • Directive 2013/55 / ​​EU (PDF) of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 20, 2013 amending Directive 2005/36 / EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and Regulation (EU) No. 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation with assistance of the Internal Market Information System ("IMI Regulation"), Official Journal of the European Union L 354/132, December 28, 2013
  • The European Commission's IMI website
  • Professional qualifications website. European Commission, archived from the original on December 27, 2014 .;
  • Services Directive website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )