Legal System Imi

IMI is one of the governance instruments of the internal market. Other such instruments are Your Europe[1], Your Europe Advice[2], SOLVIT[3] and points of single contact. [4] IMI applies an “integrated approach to data protection” developed in consultation with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and developed in consultation with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Administrative coordination is established by law and takes the form of mutual legal assistance between the competent institutions. In the case of IMI, administrative coordination includes certain forms of administrative cooperation related to the provision of information (exchange of information or provision of data); Implementation of common administrative procedures (obligation to execute a single administrative decision/act by an institution from different Member States) and networking of a specific institutional structure (work of agencies or groups in formal policy implementation processes)[5] IMI was launched in 2008 and currently supports administrative cooperation procedures in 17 different policy areas. A list of these areas and their legal bases is available on the IMI homepage here: Administrative cooperation: areas and legal bases The European Commission is responsible for the maintenance and development of the tool, support services and training. It also manages and supports the IMI Coordinators` Network, promotes the development of IMI and reports on the functioning of the system. The IMI Regulation[12], which entered into force in December 2012, is an EU law establishing a comprehensive legal framework for IMI. [13] It establishes a comprehensive set of rules for the processing of personal data in IMI and sets out a methodology for the future extension of IMI to other policy areas. IMI`s toolbox covers the most common administrative cooperation practices: IMI currently supports 67 administrative cooperation procedures in 17 different policy areas. IMI can be adapted with little or no development effort to support other policy areas.

Visit the IMI website for more information on administrative areas and data protection. The Internal Market Information System (IMI) is a computer network that connects public sector bodies in the European Economic Area. It was developed by the European Commission in collaboration with the Member States of the European Union to speed up cross-border administrative cooperation. IMI enables public administrations at national, regional and local level to identify and exchange information with colleagues in other countries. Pre-translated questions and answers, as well as machine translation, allow them to communicate in their own language. The competent authorities are the end-users of IMI. These are public bodies which have been entrusted with dealing with certain elements of the application of internal market rules. They can work at national, regional or local level. IMI aims to “become a flexible toolbox for administrative cooperation and contribute to improving the governance of the internal market”. [11] IMI is currently used in areas such as the Services Directive, Posting of Workers, the Professional Qualifications Directive, the GDPR and public documents. Information on data protection and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), published by the Department of Business, Trade and Employment, is available here: Data Protection and GDPR If a competent authority needs information from a counterparty abroad, it can make a request for information.

This clearing house uses pre-translated lists of questions and answers available in all EU languages. It is also possible to attach documents. Only competent authorities directly involved in an exchange of information shall have access to the content. A practical example of a request for information is when a German teacher wants to continue his work in Portugal. The Portuguese authority must verify the authenticity of his scanned diploma. It can then send a request for information to its partner authority in Germany via IMI. That authority may grant the request and return a reply to it. Thanks to the pre-translated question and answer sentences, both authorities can communicate in their own language. European Union (EU) Single Market rules require Member States` competent authorities to provide information to their counterparts abroad. Some legislative acts also require communication between Member States and the European Commission (e.g. for the notification of national measures transposing EU law). IMI was developed to facilitate this daily exchange of information.

IMI offers its users a range of workflows to facilitate different types of administrative cooperation in the Member States of the European Economic Area. There is one IMI National Coordinator (NIMIC) per Member State, often located in a national ministry.