Interest grows in European Parliament for SGI exemption from Services Directive
EPSU members to contact Economic and Monetary Affairs (Committee MEPs)
The Employment and Social Affairs committee is due to meet to discuss its opinion on the White Paper on Services of General Interest. The draft document, tabled by Proinsias De Rossa (PES, Ireland), is encouraging from an EPSU viewpoint. The document “considers the proposed application of the Services Directive to economic SGIs makes the need for a framework directive more pressing; Considers that the full involvement of the social partners is essential to the successful regulation of SGIs; Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to submit a communication on social and health services. This follows EPSU thinking on the ‘SGI - Services’ debate, and is particularly well timed considering the progress of the Services Directive through the EP committees. The opinion is addressed to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, which has the responsibility for reacting to the White Paper.
EPSU members are urged to contact national members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee to endorse the views of this opinion. The member list for the committee is available here.
Draft opinion of Employment and Social Affairs Committee on Commission white Paper on Services of General interest (all languages available under agenda point 14)
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