Study title

Attitudes of companies towards the European Internal Market.Topics: impact of each of the following EU Single Market measures on the company’s activities: product standards, labelling and packaging rules, public procurement rules, elimination of customs documentation, abolition of border controls, VAT procedures for sales within the EU, liberalisation of capital movements, rules for establishing businesses in other EU countries; recruitment of staff coming from other member states; reasons for not recruiting staff coming from other member states; impact of the EU Single Market on the firm’s operations with regard to: sales in the own country, sales to other EU countries, sales to non-EU countries, productivity, profitability, employment; influence of the EU Single Market on each of the following strategic fields of the company: pricing of products or services, purchasing from other EU countries, selling directly to other EU countries, distribution in other EU countries, setting up businesses in other EU countries, investing in companies in other EU countries, investment of companies from other EU countries in own business, cooperation agreements with companies from other EU countries, marketing strategy; influence of the EU Single Market on each of the following areas of the company: production process, distribution, marketing, cost of raw materials, fees for banking services, premiums for insurance services, telecommunication services, energy supplies, postal and courier services, labour costs; impact of the implementation of the Single Market on total unit costs of the company’s products; development in the level of competition in the own country as a result of the EU Single Market with regard to: domestic firms, other EU firms, non-EU firms; development in competition on the basis of prices in the own country as a result of the EU Single Market with regard to: domestic firms, other EU firms, non-EU firms; development in competition on the basis of product...