Strasbourg, 09/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - Although the deadline for submitting amendments to the services directive at the end of this week, the Green/EFA group indicated at a press conference on Wednesday that they would be submitting 73 of them during the employment and social affairs and internal market committees. In these two parliamentary committees the report will be voted on in July and September respectively. “If there is an expression of monotheism of the market (reference to an expression used in the morning of the plenary session by president Barroso), it is definitely the main principle of the draft directive, the country of origin”, explained Belgian Green Pierre Jonckheer, who also said that his group did not question the idea of the single services market. Jonckheer said that it was necessary to limit the services directive while supporting a sufficient level of preliminary harmonisation for facilitating the single market. He added that everything pertaining to the services of general interest and labour law had to remain within national remits. The Greens therefore want to set up a double list - positive and negative -with the possibility of amending, with the approval of the Parliament. The positive list includes twenty commercial services (referring to the WTO (World Trade Organisation) list of business services, distribution and tourism based services. The negative list would exclude sectors such as health or audio-visual.