What is the Directive on Services in the Internal Market

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* EPSU Position

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* Alliances

* Meeting documents

EPSU contribution - 10 points

EPSU contribution to the public hearing on the proposal for a directive on services in the internal market - European Parliament on 11 November 2004

Introduction to the services directive

EPSU ‘Ad hoc’ Working Group on Services of General Interest 9 December 2004
POSITIONS ON DRAFT SERVICES DIRECTIVE
Whatever the possibilities that might be open at a later date, it is useful to know the different proposals for changes and amendments that are being made to the different parts of the Directive. EPSU will begin to collect these different proposals, group them as far as possible under the different Articles of the Directive (not the recitals). This note is a first start. (...)

Background note

The draft Services Directive:
Implements the “country of origin” principle, so that service providers operating legally in one Member State can market services in others without having to comply with further rules in "host" Member States;
Removes “unnecessary” restrictions etc relating to cross-border services or service providers;
Obliges national authorities to exchange information and work more closely together, e.g. through interoperability of information (...)

EFBWW News ’No to the Bolkestein directive’

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