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"Mr President, I too would like to go back to the results of implementing the Services Directive in the countries of the EU. This has become a hot topic again, not so much because we are coming to the end of the two-year period for the Commission to present its report on implementation of the directive, but because the directive has led to a lot of problems in many countries. In particular, the most prominent issue concerns the application of derogations to the authorisation system, which are provided for where the system is not discriminatory or is justified on public interest grounds and meets the proportionality criterion. The Commission’s rigid application – or, rather, interpretation – of the derogation provisions stands in contrast to measures on safeguarding trust and on legal certainty. Furthermore, in combination with the measures on licensing and public procurement – even in the latest version proposed by the Commission, which excludes the licensing of activities in public areas from its provisions – it reveals a regulatory vacuum at EU level, which has thrown major sectors into chaos, as has happened with beach establishment operators in Italy, tulip growers in the Netherlands and Christmas market traders in Germany, to mention just a few. Does the Commission not think that intervention is needed to properly regulate free competition, to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises and to preserve the character of certain sectors that are important to many Member States?"@en1
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