KROES EU SERVICES COMPETITION RESTRICTIONS SPEECH
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has fired a shot across the bows of European Union (EU) professions that have tough entrance restrictions and limit competition amongst qualified experts, from lawyers, pharmacists and accountants to notaries, engineers and architects.EU competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes's speech at a British government-organised seminar in London this week (21-11) comes as the Commission is holding a competition review of professional services. She proposed that "a proportionality test" be used to assess whether "existing restrictive ...
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