The impact of the proposed EU directive on services on the internal market

Abstract

The proposed Services Directive has been long awaited throughout the European Union. It has come to the fore at a time when the EU is demonstrating a determination to develop not only in numbers but also in the fruitful implementation of the original freedoms that its founders set out create half a decade ago. This Directive goes to the very heart of the EU's existence and has been applauded in most quarters within and without the EU. In this dissertation an attempt has been made not only to review in some depth the ambit of this Directive but also to consider the reactions it has provoked and more specifically, the impact it is bound to have on various sectors of the EU's economy. It is these repercussions, in particular, that have caught the attention of the writer and is the main brunt that forms this dissertation.