According to a provisional study by the European Parliament’s internal market and industry committee (IMCO), many items of legislation underlying the internal market will be directly affected by the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.
Among the more emblematic is European legislation for the reception and surveillance of the motor vehicle market, along with the services directive and the directive on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications.
The committee’s thirty odd-page study gives a long list of legislation that will be directly impacted by Brexit. For each item of legislation or legislative package, the MEPs tried to list the issues generated by Brexit and the questions that will needed to be decided. This newsletter has selected the following three items as being particularly of the moment.
Imbroglio in the certification of motor vehicles. Firstly, for the legislation on the reception and surveillance of the motor vehicle market (which is currently being revised (see EUROPE 11722)), the MEPs are concerned about the UK’s weight in the car manufacturing sector. For this particularly sensitive issue due to multiple frauds detected in tests of car manufacturers, the MEPs query the validity of reception of vehicles in the post-Brexit United Kingdom and vice versa.
Service suppliers in a state of flux. One of the other big issues in sight is the services directive (see EUROPE 11718). Here, the MEPs have targeted a long list of outstanding issues. Firstly, they wonder what will happen to the rights of service suppliers from continental Europe which have opened one or more bodies, such as branches, agencies or subsidiaries, in the United Kingdom, and vice versa.
Another question in suspense is whether it will be possible for service suppliers from the Continent to set up in the UK in the future. On this question, the negotiations between the EU and the UK will need to focus on modalities and mutual recognition for insurance, explain the study’s authors. They go further and wonder whether service suppliers from the EU27 will need to notify the British authorities of temporary provision of services provided by an EU member states on British soil. Likewise, the MEPs wonder whether the UK plans to remain subject to the 'e-governance' directive.
More broadly, the study highlights the question of future administrative cooperation between the UK and the EU27. Above all, the MEPs are concerned about respect of non-discrimination based on nationality or place of residence for the supply of services in the future.
Professional qualifications in limbo. The recognition of professional qualifications is a matter of concern to MEPs, particularly the fate of the European professional card which was provided for pre-Brexit under the EU directive 2013/55. They propose that special provisional measures should be introduced for professionals working in the United Kingdom who gained their qualifications on the Continent.
See: http://bit.ly/2kduEnP (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)