Created in 2002,[1] it assists citizens and businesses to ascertain their EU rights where a dispute has arisen between a citizen or a company and a public authority of a member state of the European Union and the EEA other than their country of origin.
SOLVIT is free of charge, and mainly an online service.
On 2 May 2017 the European Commission announced a package of measures intended to enhance the functioning of the Single Market within the EU,[3] which included a proposed action plan on reinforcing SOLVIT.
[4] The Commission published a report in September 2022 celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the network.
The report noted that 28,600 cases had been addressed during this 20-year period and 85% of these had been resolved.