Brussels, 14/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has not acted quickly enough or boldly enough to ensure compliance with the services directive (2006/123/EC), according to the European Court of Auditors, the role of which is to ensure that public money is well spent, in its report on the said directive published on Monday 14 March.
The verdict is unequivocal. Some 20 member states failed to transpose the directive within the deadline set - December 2009, three years after it...