However, the ruling also exposes a widening enforcement gap, with businesses increasingly relying on national courts rather than the European Commission to defend their Single Market rights. Explore related questionsSince 2015, companies have been required to notify authorities of shipments from other EU Member States 24 hours before they arrived in the Czech Republic. Single Market enforcement gapWhile the judgment removes one barrier, it also highlights how fragmented supplement regulation remains across the EU. Dario Dongo, founder of Italian food law consultancy Fare, commented that the Pragon judgment highlights a wider enforcement gap in the EU Single Market. “The judgment undoes a barrier and reminds stakeholders, and hopefully the Commission, how to make the Single Market work,” he said.