Brussels, 22/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has launched a public consultation exercise that will run until Monday 13 September on various measures connected with the freedom of establishment and the cross-border supply of services governed by EU Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the single market (the Services Directive). In terms of freedom of establishment, it wants to collect views on national measures transposing the Services Directive or measures that have remained in force since the entry into force of relevant EU rules on 31 December 2009 on authorisation systems for the binding and compulsory procedure whereby suppliers of services have to be given a formal document or decision in order to supply their services; eight demands that hinder the freedom of establishment (quantitative or territorial restrictions on the supply of services, the obligation to have a company in a specific legal form, the ban on being established in more than one member state, minimum staff numbers, the obligation to apply certain prices, the obligation to supply the service along with other services and restrictions on the supply of multidisciplinary services. Interested parties' views are also sought on the compatibility of the Services Directive with national measures restricting the cross-border supply of services, like measures requiring physical establishment in the country where the services are supplied; the obtaining of authorisation and/or the duty to register beforehand with a competent authority; notifying the host member state of plans to supply a service; the signing of special contracts by the supplier and beneficiary in order to limit the supply of services by anybody else; and use of special equipment. The Commission has provided information for each member state about the existence of restrictions on the supply of services. The consultation is the final part of the peer assessment of national rules by the member states. The Commission will be publishing a report on the peer assessment at the end of the year. See: http: //ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2010/services_directive_en.htm (M.B./transl.fl)