Lawyer at the Paris Bar, established at the Brussels Bar and associated to the Lallemand and Legros office (Brussels), Stephan Rodrigues comments on the vote, by European deputies, of the compromise on the draft "Services” Directive. He says that "the promoters of the Directive wanted to treat services like goods and to consider all services without any distinction. It was a double misjudgment ". (Ref. 06150)
The draft directive has been adopted by European deputies on February 16. Have they emptied the directive of its contents?
The most adventurous provisions were deleted, but the objective did not change: improve the domestic market of services’ functioning. The principle of freedom to provide services exists since the signature of the Rome Treaty in 1957; it is even one of the EU’s fundamental principles. But the European Commission noted that this principle had not been sufficiently applied and
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