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Yes, an Internal Market for Services will bring extra jobs and wealth for Europe!support@globulebleu.com, Monday 26 September 2005 16:53 ::The Congress of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party in Bratislava, 23-24 September 2005
Whereas:• Services are crucial to the European Internal Market, accounting for between 60 and 70% of economic activity in the EU-25, and a similar (and rising) proportion of overall employment. • Overall, the Internal Market has resulted in real benefits: although a liberalised internal market for goods has not yet reached its full extent, in the 10 years since the completion of the first Single Market programme in 1993, the increase in jobs and wealth attributable to the Internal Market are respectively at least 2.5 million extra jobs and nearly € 900 billion wealth. • The overall Internal Market for services is not yet working as well as it should, and most of the benefits seen so far from the Internal Market have occurred in goods markets. • Barriers have a serious negative effect on the cost and quality of the final service to users of services whether they are other service providers, manufacturers or consumers. • Barriers to trade in services penalise in particular small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which are disproportionately affected by complex administrative and legal requirements. • In January 2004, the European Commission – at the initiative of Frits Bolkestein - made a proposal for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market to address the above-mentioned issues And considering that: • Although the possibility for consumers to choose their service providers across the Internal Market will enhance competition among the latter, bring the prices down and level up the quality of services • The possibility for service providers to more easily provide cross-border services across the Internal Market will increase the business of innovative enterprises, create jobs and increase the overall competitiveness of the EU • The immediate impact of the draft directive shall not be exaggerated, as only certain types of services will be directly impacted (e.g. not services of proximity) and natural barriers to the cross-border provision of services such as language differences and the lack of European labour mobility are unfortunately due to remain for some time. Concludes: • the ELDR Party and the ALDE Group should publicly stand up in favour of the directive on services in the Internal Market, strongly refuse the removal of the ‘country of origin’ principle, and dismantle populist misconceptions about its underlying concept and objectives. |
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