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This article is devoted to the notion of services in the EC law. The author underlines the importance of services in the present economy, employing 116 million people in the EU. He analyses art.50 of the EC Treaty and compares it with the definitions of services in the secondary law. The author identifies 3 phases of the services liberalization: 1) the elimination of discrimination, 2) the elimination...
After two years of intensive works and discussions the services directive was finally adopted in December 2006. However, the final text of the directive was - in the result of compromise between the Council and the European Parliament - watered down in comparison with ambitious Commission's proposal from 2004. In this article the authoress summarizes the most important differences between the project...
According to the European Commission, the proper functioning of the internal market may be hindered by different national contract laws which cause problems in relation to cross-border contracts. Therefore, it has initiated a debate on finding solutions to approximate certain areas of contract law in order to remove possible barriers. Four solutions have been proposed, among which the idea of adopting...