sectoral directive

That is why the majority of my group wanted to keep the sectoral directives.

However, this report is not enough. I am referring here to the necessary sectoral directive on health services.

Clearly, I support the proposals to repeal the sectoral directives.

That had, naturally, to be done within the scope of a sectoral directive on patents.

Let me add that a framework directive would certainly be consistent with the sectoral directives.

As a result of that discussion, the sectoral directive on the working time of mobile workers was adopted.

The question arising from the outset was: how, particularly in the light of the sectoral directive, can we guarantee reciprocity?

The Commission believes that the directive has proved valid and deserves its place among the sectoral directives.

So we are calling for legal clarity, based upon the sector-specific approach, and we look forward to seeing future sectoral directives.

The Commission has however chosen to give a special sectoral directive and to maintain the principle on a restrictive aptitude test.

This must, however, take place via sectoral directives of the kind of which very successful use is already being made in a number of sectors.

The specific amendments of sectoral directives do not require any particular comment from our Committee on Legal Affairs.

Sectoral directives such as those proposed for the telecom and postal sectors are therefore the appropriate instrument to achieve this objective.

The Commission is proposing a choice between a simple communication to strengthen the legal certainty of these services and a multitude of sectoral directives.

Clever, dishonest service providers will continue to exploit national legislation, and to use the weak points in the directive by relying on the sectoral directives.

The European Commission must have the courage, it must use its right to take legislative initiatives and propose a sectoral directive on health services.

This extension of the scope of the application does not undermine any of the sectoral directives already adopted on copyright, electronic commerce and computer programs.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for the second time, Parliament is debating the Commission proposal amending the sectoral directive.

Would what we are doing just now, with our sectoral directives and our decisions taken on a somewhat basis on state aid, suffice as a legal framework?

The result now is obviously that there will have to be a large number of amendments taking more and more elements from the sectoral directives into the general directive.

Secondly, a large scale and detailed harmonisation process through sectoral directives would be unnecessary, unrealistic and inconsistent with better regulation and subsidiarity principles.

I am strongly opposed to using the review of the Community acquis as a basis for broadening the scope of existing sectoral Directives or for introducing new ones.

We have gradually moved from sectoral directives regulating various activities to a horizontal approach based on the principle of mutual recognition and two key directives from 1989 and 1992.

The sectoral directives are undeniably seeking to move towards public service obligations, focusing on universal service, the environment, interconnection and security of supply, but they are only recommendations to the states.

It would be like an extra layer of legislation between the internal market’s rules of competition and the sectoral directives, and it would also be an obstacle to product development.