The Commission has launched a stakeholder consultation to assess the national measures implementing some provisions of the EU services directive, notably the measures relating to the requirements imposed by Member States on the establishment of service providers and on the cross-border provision of their services.

Certain social services are excluded from the scope of the directive (see article 2.j of directive 2006/123).

The public consultation will be open until 13 September 2010. It is part of the evaluation process of a number of national measures that Member States and the Commission have been carrying out since the beginning of 2010. By the end of the year, the Commission will report on the result of this evaluation process to the Council and the European Parliament.

Interested parties can submit their contributions at: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2010/services_directive_en.htm