Transcript Proposal for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market

TAIEX Seminar on
the Directive on Services in the Internal Market
Warsaw, 31.03.2008
Points of single contact
Sophie Malétras
Administrative simplification
• Program of administrative simplification and
modernisation applying to all procedures and
formalities necessary for access to and exercise of a
service activity
– Apply both in case of establishment and temporary provisions of
services
– No distinction between domestic and foreign providers
• 3 pillars
– Simplification of procedures and formalities applicable to service
providers
– Setting-up of the « points of single contact »
– Electronic procedures
Administrative simplification
Simplification of procedures and formalities
• Broad notion of procedures and formalities: any
administrative step which businesses are
required to take.
• Assessment by MS of all administrative
requirements in the light of their necessity.
• Assessment by MS of requirements imposing
the production of documents in a specific form.
• MS have to accept equivalent documents from
other MS
Administrative simplification
Points of single contact
• Art 6: MS shall ensure that it is possible for
providers to complete the procedures and
formalities needed for access to or
exercise of a service activities.
 The setting up of points of single contact
as single interlocutors for service providers
 Objective: reduction of red tape and
facilitation of the completion of procedures
by the service providers
Administrative simplification
- Completion of procedures and formalities • PSC have to be available for completion of
procedures and formalities that providers have
to comply with in a MS
 It includes: authorisations, declarations, notifications, allocation of a
company registration number…
• Through PSC, providers should be able to
– Obtain all pertinent information, forms and documents
– Submit documents and applications
– Receive the decisions and other replies relating to
their application.
Administrative simplification
-the setting-up of PSC-
• Each MS free to decide how to organise
the PSC in its territory but has to ensure
that the PSC is single for the provider.
• Competences of PSC
– Coordinating role
– Allocation of certain decisional powers
• MS free to decide to whom attributing the
task of PSC
Administrative simplification
Information to be provided through PSC
• accessible at distance and via electronic
means
• covers
– requirements service providers have to
comply with
– means of and conditions for accessing public
registers and databases
– contact details of the competent authorities
Administrative simplification
Assistance to be provided through PSC
• On request, PSC should provide
assistance on the way requirements are
applied or interpreted.
• Additionnal information to be provided in a
clear and unambiguous manner.
• Encouraging the use of other languages.
Administrative simplification
Electronic procedures
• Essential tool to make administrative
procedures at distance less burdensome
• Contribution to the modernisation of public
administrations
• Legal commitment under the Services
Directive to put in place electronic
procedures by the end of 2009.
Thank you for your attention
Sophie Malétras
European Commission
DG Internal Market and Services
[email protected]