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The Implementation of the Services Directive in the United Kingdom

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The Implementation of the EU Services Directive

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The EU Services Directive (SD) is a centrepiece for the realisation of the Internal Market in the services sector aiming at considerably lowering the barriers for service provision in the EU. This chapter therefore analyses the transposition and implementation of the requirements of the SD into the national (administrative) law system of the United Kingdom. This chapter treats all relevant requirements of the SD, such as the Point of Single Contact (POSC), the screening of national law according to the requirements of the SD, the adaption of authorisation schemes for service provision, the requirement of ‘tacit authorisation’, and the need for new rules on administrative cooperation. Finally an assessment of the impact of the SD on the national (administrative) law system is provided.

Martin Trybus, LL.M, Ph.D., is Professor of European Law and Policy and Director of the Institute of European Law at the University of Birmingham (m.trybus@bham.ac.uk); Almuth Berger, LL.M. is Rechtsreferendarin at the Landgericht Duisburg, Germany (almuth.berger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Hereinafter: ‘Guidance’.

  2. 2.

    Hereinafter: ‘Consultation Document’.

  3. 3.

    Hereinafter: ‘Government’s response’.

  4. 4.

    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20092999_en_1.

  5. 5.

    Explanatory Memorandum, http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/em/uksiem_20092999_en.pdf,’ Transposition Note’ begins at p. 106.

  6. 6.

    Existing national legislation and administrative practices that will be changed because of the Provision of Service Regulations 2009 or the Directive, available at http://old.berr.gov.uk/files/file54349.pdf cf. also http://www.berr.gov.uk/policies/europe/eu-services-directive/legislation-and-implementation/implementation/services-directive-implementation-updates.

  7. 7.

    http://www.sra.org.uk/sra/consultations/fee-policy-second-december-2009.page.

  8. 8.

    Government’s response, p. 49.

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    Government’s response, p. 49.

  11. 11.

    Ibid.

  12. 12.

    Existing national legislation and administrative practices that will be changed because of the Provision of Service Regulations 2009 or the Directive, available at http://old.berr.gov.uk/files/file54349.pdf.

  13. 13.

    Ibid.

  14. 14.

    Explanatory Memorandum on the Provision of Services (Insolvency Practitioners) Regulations 2009, available at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/em/uksiem_20093081_en.pdf.

  15. 15.

    Ibid.

  16. 16.

    Included in ibid.

  17. 17.

    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20092999_en_9.

  18. 18.

    Ibid.

  19. 19.

    Ibid.

  20. 20.

    Ibid.

  21. 21.

    Section 3 of the Act provides the following definition:“The term “pedlar” means any hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, tinker, caster of metals, mender of chairs, or other person who, without any horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, travels and trades on foot and goes from town to town or to other men’s houses, carrying to sell or exposing for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise, or procuring orders for goods, wares, or merchandise immediately to be delivered, or selling or offering for sale his skill in handicraft; […]”.

  22. 22.

    Overall: Street Trading and Pedlar Laws—A joint consultation on modernising Street Trading and Pedlar Legislation, and on draft guidance on the current regime, available at http://berr.gov.uk/assets/biscore/corporate/docs/migrated-consultations/street%20trading%20and%20pedlar%20laws%20a%20joint%20consultation%20on%20modernising%20street%20trading%20and%20pedlar%20legislation%20and%20on%20draft%20guidance%20on%20the%20current%20regime.pdf.

  23. 23.

    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20092999_en_9.

  24. 24.

    For detailed information see: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tna/+/http:/www.berr.gov.uk/files/file23765.pdf/.

  25. 25.

    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20092999_en_9.

  26. 26.

    http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/36-Housing/b36s3-introd-pm.pdf.

  27. 27.

    Ibid.

  28. 28.

    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/sr/sr2009/em/nisrem_20090401_en.pdf.

  29. 29.

    Ibid.

  30. 30.

    http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/europe/eu-services-directive/legislation-and-implementation/information-for-local-authorities

  31. 31.

    Consultation Document, p. 25; User Requirements study, available at http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file40401.pdf.

  32. 32.

    Consultation Document.

  33. 33.

    Governments’s response.

  34. 34.

    Guidance, at 43.

  35. 35.

    Consultation Document, p. 11.

  36. 36.

    Ibid.

  37. 37.

    Guidance, at 52.

  38. 38.

    Consultation Document, p. 33.

  39. 39.

    Ibid.

  40. 40.

    Consultation Document, p. 33.

  41. 41.

    Ibid.

  42. 42.

    Consultation Document, p. 27.

  43. 43.

    Ibid.

  44. 44.

    Consultation Document, p. 27.

  45. 45.

    Ibid, p. 28.

  46. 46.

    http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file51631.doc.

  47. 47.

    http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file51630.doc.

  48. 48.

    Guidance, at 49.

  49. 49.

    Guidance, at 56.

  50. 50.

    Guidance for Departments and Competent Authorities on the Provision of Services Regulations 2009, http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/europe/docs/10-568-what-to-do-if-your-work-affects-service-businesses.pdf, at 54.

  51. 51.

    Ibid, at 56.

  52. 52.

    Guidance, supra, note 50, at 67.

  53. 53.

    Ibid.

  54. 54.

    EU Services Directive Guidance to Local Authorities, http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file50026.pdf, at 12e.

  55. 55.

    Ibid.

  56. 56.

    EU Services Directive Guidance to Local Autorities, supra, note 54.

  57. 57.

    Ibid.

  58. 58.

    Government’s response, p. 11.

  59. 59.

    Ibid, p. 18.

  60. 60.

    Transposition Note available at: http://www.berr.gov.uk/policies/europe/eu-services-directive/legislation-and-implementation; also included in the previously mentioned ‘Explanatory Memorandum’, n. 5.

  61. 61.

    Ibid.

  62. 62.

    Transposition Note, supra, note 60.

  63. 63.

    Guidance, at 56.

  64. 64.

    Guidance, at 58.

  65. 65.

    Guidance, at 61.

  66. 66.

    Guidance, at 61.

  67. 67.

    Guidance, at 62.

  68. 68.

    Guidance, at 63.

  69. 69.

    Guidance, at 55.

  70. 70.

    Guidance, at 44.

  71. 71.

    Guidance, at 66.

  72. 72.

    Guidance, at 67.

  73. 73.

    Guidance, at 100.

  74. 74.

    Ibid.

  75. 75.

    Thanks to Dr. Adrian Hunt (University of Birmingham) for discussing this question with us.

  76. 76.

    Guidance, at 68.

  77. 77.

    Guidance, at 69.

  78. 78.

    Guidance, at 70 and 71.

  79. 79.

    Guidance, at 72.

  80. 80.

    Formerly the Magistrate’s Court.

  81. 81.

    The High Court is present in many larger cities of England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

  82. 82.

    Thanks to Dr. Adrian Hunt (University of Birmingham) for discussing this question with us.

  83. 83.

    Thanks to Dr. Adrian Hunt (University of Birmingham) for discussing this question with us.

  84. 84.

    Thanks to Dr. Adrian Hunt (University of Birmingham) for discussing this question with us.

  85. 85.

    Guidance, at 89.

  86. 86.

    Guidance, at 100.

  87. 87.

    Guidance, at 103.

  88. 88.

    ‘Transposition Note’, n 5 and 60.

  89. 89.

    Ibid.

  90. 90.

    Government’s response, p. 23.

  91. 91.

    Ibid, p. 22.

  92. 92.

    Government ‘s response, p. 21.

  93. 93.

    Ibid.

  94. 94.

    Consultation Document, p. 39.

  95. 95.

    Ibid.

  96. 96.

    Consultation Document, p. 39.

  97. 97.

    ‘Transposition Note’, n 5 and 60.

  98. 98.

    Consultation Document, p. 38.

  99. 99.

    Government’s response, p. 23.

  100. 100.

    Ibid.

  101. 101.

    Consultation Document, p. 44.

  102. 102.

    Ibid, p. 45.

  103. 103.

    Government’s response, p. 26.

  104. 104.

    Ibid, p. 27.

  105. 105.

    Government’s response, p. 26.

  106. 106.

    http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file53109.pdf.

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Trybus, M., Berger, A. (2012). The Implementation of the Services Directive in the United Kingdom. In: Stelkens, U., Weiß, W., Mirschberger, M. (eds) The Implementation of the EU Services Directive. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-840-8_27

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