90 days from the date set for the completion of the single market, more than 90% of the 276 measures required to this end had been adopted. To complete their task, EC ministers therefore must adopt - during the Council meetings of 10 November and 17 december - no more than 23 measures by the end of the year. Another plus point: the speed with which these European "laws" are being transposed into national legislation has increased. The proportion of laws that have been transposed varies from nearly 90% in...Denmark to 64% in Belgium. But the elimination of checks at the Community's internal borders, set for 1 January 1993, is not certain. The Member States have yet to shift the controls on the ground. They must also sign the Convention on the crossing of the Community's external frontiers, which has been hels up by differencies between Britain and Spain over the status of Gibraltar. Only France, Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg have ratified the Schengen Convention. Finally, Britain takes the view that the

maintenance of border checks on individual is compatible with "1993", and needed in the fight against illegal immigration and international crime. We will write about this and more in the Dossier about Internal Market, that will be published in our "Letter", December 1992, with the aid of the DG III of European Commission.