European Commission
DG Internal Market and Services
B-1049 Bruxelles
September 8
th
2010
Response to Commission hearing on Retail Services in the
Internal Market
First, the Danish government would like to thank the Commission for the op-
portunity to contribute to the important work on strengthening the European
retail market.
Below, you will find Danish comments to the report from the Commission,
“Towards more efficient and fairer retail services in the internal market for
2020”.
Due to the fact that the land planning systems have a high impact on the retail
landscape the Member States are strongly motivated to ensure, that land
planning systems supports an efficient retail sector.
The accessibility to retailers varies across Member States. This is not only a
consequence of lacking co-ordination of land planning systems, but is also
caused by the diversity of the Member States, including varying cultures. Due
to the great diversity within the EU the Danish Government believes, that the
land planning systems in the Member States are unsuitable to be met with
harmonization requirements.
The Danish Government believes though, that an evaluation of the national
schemes and exchange of best practices could likely contribute to optimizing
the land planning systems across the Member States.
Furthermore The Danish Government generally supports initiatives to im-
prove the conditions for cross-border e-commerce, including for example
such initiatives, that the Commission addressed in “A Digital Agenda for Eu-
rope”.
As for trying to concentrate retail market on lower energy consumption, effi-
cient logistics, waste collection and recycling systems and sustainable devel-
opment, Denmark is a strong advocate for ensuring such matters. The Danish
Government generally supports initiatives, which aims to pursue and dissem-
inate good environment practices in the retail services. However it is at the
same time important to stress, that in regard to new administrative burdens
put upon the companies, these must be balanced.
Regarding the more specific data applied in the factual and comprehensive
analysis, the Danish
Competition and Consumer Authority has already provided their views on
these matters to the Commission.
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