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"Mr President, Mr McCreevy, ladies and gentlemen, the goal of the Services Directive is to foster economic growth and employment in the European Union. Currently a large number of administrative obstacles impede the effective functioning of the EU internal market. The most negative impact of administrative obstacles and the costs associated with them is on the ability of the SME sector to offer services outside their own countries. The services sector makes up about 70% of the EU economy, and so the removal of administrative obstacles in this sector would give a significant boost to its development. Analysis by the European Commission shows that in the period from 1992 to 2002 measures taken to improve the EU internal labour market and to open up the EU’s internal borders increased the EU’s GDP by 1.8% and created two and a half million new jobs. This increase was mainly achieved by ensuring free movement of goods and liberalising the telecommunications and energy sectors. The European Commission’s analysis also shows that a properly functioning EU internal services market could bring about equal growth in the economy and jobs. It is therefore important to vote for a strong Services Directive which includes the country of origin principle, at least in the variant voted for by the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, maintaining those articles of the directive that lay down the rights of service providers regarding the posting of workers to a country where services are being provided, and also restricting the list of exceptions. Leaving out these principles would considerably distort the meaning of the Services Directive, and opportunities for additional EU economic growth would be missed. Some of the European Parliament’s Members are trying to seriously distort the significance of the Services Directive and to implement a protectionist policy in relation to service providers from the new Member States, without taking into account the economic losses which that would cause to the European Union as a whole. The vote by the European Parliament will demonstrate whether the majority of Members see the future of the EU economy as a dynamic and open EU internal market or as a protectionist jungle of 25 Member States."@en1
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