EU SERVICES DIRECTIVE
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN OPPORTUNITY for British accountants to work in other European Union (EU) countries under their own standards and professional bodies, appears to have been lost at last week's (March 22-23) EU summit in Brussels. Heads of government agreed to rewrite a proposed services directive proposed last year by former internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein, after pressure from Germany, France and others. Their key objection was a proposed 'rule of origin' allowing any service provider legally established in a member state to ply their trade across ...
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