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"Mr President, the opportunity to pose questions on the Services Directive is very welcome. I and members of my committee are deeply engaged in following through the transposition. I want to thank the Commissioner for his energy in pursuing this.
My question, however, is not so much related to the actual legal requirement on Member States to transpose the directive. My observation, based on visits to a number of countries and on talking both to governments and to business organisations, is that we have absolutely encouraged Member States to make a substantial investment in providing services – the points of single contact – with a view to opening up their markets to service providers from other countries, and also to support and train all their public authorities in accepting applications from other countries for the provision of services. But my experience is that most businesses who can potentially take advantage of this know nothing about it at all, because the one thing Member States have neglected is any promotion of these great new opportunities.
I would like the Commissioner’s reassurance, with regard to the benchmarking exercise, that we will actually have some real information on the ground about businesses’ awareness of the opportunities that have been created. Otherwise it is simply like saying to Member States that they should invest heavily in this great new product and new idea, but that they should not tell anyone about it. How is that a sensible strategy?"@en1
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