DG Markt “interprets” the Services Directive in its own way

(B2) The approach of the European Commission's Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG Markt) setting the conditions for the exclusion of social services from the Services Directive (ex-Bolkestein) is proving to be very restrictive. You have to read the directive interpretation guide, a veritable 80-page "bible", published discreetly during the summer (only in English!). In other words. Any approved provider, but not formally obliged by this approval to actually produce the services concerned, but simply authorized to do so, will therefore not be excluded from the scope of the directive.

This restrictive approach is denounced by social actors, such as theSocial Union for Housing. It aims in fact "to limit the scope of the exclusion and to include the whole of the non-charity associative world which, although it may be approved or registered by a public authority, is not explicitly mandated by a public authority. public in terms of a formal obligation to provide a service, but exercises it on a voluntary basis recognized by the public authority" believe these specialists.

(NGV)