ABSTRACT
The creation of a common market where goods, people, services and capital move freely was one of the main objectives of the EEC Treaty. The SEA gave a new impetus to the achievement of this objective. The SEA replaced the term “common market” by “an internal market” and defined it as:
Based on a White Paper prepared by Lord Cockfield, when he was the member of the European Commission with responsibility for the internal market, more than 300 measures were introduced to bring the national markets of all Member States into one economic area without internal frontiers. This internal market was completed on 31 December 1992.
