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"You raise an extremely important issue, Mr van de Camp. From our point of view, it represents a major source of growth and competitiveness for Europe, through the proper implementation of the Services Directive. The latter has already allowed for many obstacles to be eliminated in the sectors covered by this directive, which make up 40% of the European economy.
The figures I have available to me show that over 1 000 implementing laws have already been adopted. Today, 23 of the 27 Member States have finished transposing the necessary legislation. Four countries are still finalising this transposition: Germany, Austria, Belgium and Greece. The Points of Single Contact – to which many of you are committed, as am I, in order to make European laws more accessible to the citizens and to provide them with interactive tools – are up and running in 24 Member States. There is some delay in Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania.
Mr van de Camp, I will shortly have completed my visits to each of the capitals, something which I promised Parliament I would carry out. In every one of them – I will shortly be travelling to Malta and Latvia as the final stops on this tour – I organised a workshop with all of the national officials responsible for implementing this and other directives, such as the directive on professional qualifications and the directive on public procurement. I am committed to ensuring that these laws achieve their full potential in every country, because there is nothing worse than making laws here in Brussels that are not implemented in the Member States, than having a legislative wheel that turns in Brussels and Strasbourg and another one that turns at the same time at national level. We need to join them together. That is what I have done with these workshops, and, believe me, it is extremely useful.
The Services Directive clearly represents a source of growth – 1.5% of additional growth, or EUR 60 to 140 billion, according to our estimates. My priority, before you and with you, is to ensure the proper implementation of this directive, the potential of which has yet to be sufficiently exploited, as you said."@en1
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