03.10.2006 - 04.10.2006
13:30 - 17:30

Internal Market Seminar: Part 2: Free Movement of Professionals and Services and the Protection of Consumers of Services

European Institute of Public Administration
Rue d`Egmont 11
1050 Brussels
Phone: +32 (0)2 502 10 06
Fax: +32 (0)2 511 67 70
Email: eipa@eipa-nl.com

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Discussion / Debate / Lecture

Internal Market & Competition

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Joyce Groneschild
Phone: +31 (0)43 3296 357
Email: j.groneschild@eipa-nl.com

Maastricht


Netherlands

This 1.5-day seminar will present the rules governing the free movement of persons and the freedom to provide cross-border services, their main principles (such as mutual recognition and non-discrimination) and their impact on national authorities at all levels of government. Following a recent overhaul, a new Directive was issued earlier this year. However, the essence of the rules – some of which date back to 1968 but are often still overlooked – remains the same. At this seminar, the evolution, origins and reasons for these rules will be set out and explained so as to provide the participants with a solid base for dealing with this issue and to show them when these matters become relevant for them. In this context, they may sometimes be required to ignore the national rules they are familiar with and instead have to familiarise themselves with and apply the European rules directly.

Dr Timm Rentrop, Lecturer / Project Leader, EIPA, Maastricht (NL); Mr Laurent Ghekière, Delegate of the Social Union for Housing to the EU, Vice-President of the CEEP Committee on Enterprises, Internal Market and Competition, Brussels (B); Ms. Ana Rodriguez-Perez, Administrator, European Commission, Internal Market Directorate-General, Regulated professions (Unit D3), Brussels (BE); Ms . María Teresa Fábregas Fernández, European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services, Brussels (BE);