Directive on services
In November 2006, the European Parliament adopted the directive on services which was negociated in the Council of Ministers. The June Movement had made several amendments which unfortunately were rejected.
In one of the amendments, we wanted to give the member states the right to decide themselves whether services should be organised as part of the public service or by a private service provider.
The attitudes toward this important question vary between the countries. If you have effective public hospitals then there is no reason to establish private ones and vice versa. You should be allowed to decide this as a voter and not just by buying at the market.
In one of the other amendments, we asked for the possibilty to respect the collective agreements in Denmark. A third amendment would give the countries the opportunity to put VAT and taxes on the services above a certain minimum amount. These are three obvious proposals which are not clarified in the adopted directive on services. The EU adoption is so weak that the June Movement has called it the “judge directive” because it will be up to the judges to decide the exact content.
This is not how you legislate!
You can read the directive on services here
