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"Nearly four and a half years after the adoption of the notorious Services Directive, known as the Bolkestein Directive, this essential issue, which covers a wide spectrum of activities accounting for around 40% of EU GDP and jobs, is once again on the European Parliament’s agenda. Fortunately, things have now quietened down and the left-leaning parties seem to have abandoned their dogmatic posturing on the Services Directive, the purpose of which, it is important to point out, is to remove the unnecessary and restrictive obstacles to the provision of services within the European Union. It should be said that the Gebhardt report voted on today is less concerned with the content of the text than with assessing the Member States’ efforts to transpose it.
This transposition is in accordance with the directive, since the Member States were required to simplify their administrative procedures and to set up ‘points of single contact’ by the end of 2009, so that businesses could complete their formalities more easily by electronic means. The least we can say is that there is still progress to be made in many Member States so as to strengthen the single market and facilitate the day-to-day work of SMEs, only 8% of which operate beyond their national borders."@en1
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