GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/internal market/services

Although need for services directive seems accepted, principle of country of origin remains highly controversial - Rapporteur Evelyne Gebhardt and many MEPs raise problem of services of general interest

Brussels, 20/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - During examination of the first working document from Rapporteur Evelyne Gebhardt (PES, Germany), a majority of members of the parliamentary committee on the internal market and consumer protection expressed their agreement, on 18 January, on the principle of a directive on internal market services. They earnestly hoped that the “Bolkestein Directive” proposal would be clarified as they feared it might complicate national debates on ratification of...