Table of Contents:
Single Market for Services
Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about Single market for services
Topics
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
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Single market for services
Services account for more than 70 % of the economic activity of the Member States and a similar proportion of employment. The freedom to provide services and freedom of establishment, as set out in Articles 49 and 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), are therefore essential to the smooth operation of the internal market. In this way, economic operators can pursue a stable, continuous activity in one or more Member States and/or offer temporary services in another Member State without having to be established there.
The European Union is therefore working towards providing frameworks for these two principles in order to guarantee the smooth functioning of the single market for services, and especially cross-border services. The EU has achieved significant progress in the area of certain services. Moreover, in 2006 it adopted the “Services” Directive which aims at removing barriers to trade and services, and at facilitating cross-border operations.
Single market for services Contents
- Financial services: general framework
- Financial services: banking
- Financial services: insurance
- Financial services: transactions in securities
GENERAL POLICIES
- ‘Services’ Directive
- Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services
- The principle of equal treatment for men and women outside the labour market
- The competitiveness of business-related services
- System for the recognition of professional qualifications
SECTORAL PROVISIONS
Liberal professions
- Competition in professional services
Services of general interest
- Reform of the EU State aid rules on Services of General Economic Interest
- New European commitment for services of general interest
- White Paper on services of general interest
- Social services of general interest
Road transport
- Common rules for access to the international road haulage market
- Common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services
- Goods: Non-resident carriers in the national market
Marine transport
- Freedom to supply services, competition, unfair pricing practices and free access to ocean trade
- Freedom to provide services within the Member States (ocean trade)
- Freedom to provide maritime transport services
- Inland navigation: non-resident carriers
- Inland navigation: transport of goods or passengers by inland waterway between Member States
Air transport
- Air service agreements between Member States and third countries
Information society
- Legal aspects of electronic commerce (“Directive on electronic commerce”)
- A new framework for electronic communications services
- Regulatory framework for electronic communications
- Authorisation of electronic communications networks and services
- Universal service and users’ rights
- Access to electronic communications networks
- Data protection in the electronic communications sector
- Online gambling (Green Paper)
Postal services
- The Establishment of an Internal Postal Market