The "Technical Implementation Report" presented by DG Enterprise Director gert-Jan Koopman consists of a systematic state of play of all policy measures laid down in the Community Lisbon Programme.
The main conclusions of the report are:
- By end of July 2006, the Commission had adopted 75 of the 102 actions promised in 2005, and;
- the other two institutions (Parliament and Council) need to speed up their adoption of the proposals: out of the 39 actions where both institutions need to have their say, only 9 have entirely gone through the legislative process.
By mid-October, member states were expected to send their progress reports of their national Lisbon action plan to the Commission. To date, the Commission has received 21 out of the 25 progress reports (only the Czech Republic and Sweden - due to recent elections - and Belgium and Luxemburg have not sent their reports yet). In general, the Commission has the impression that the ownership strategy has made a difference and member states are now more willing to implement the necessary structural reforms of their economies.
