General Comparative Report on the Research Project ‘The Implementation of the Services Directive in the EU Member States’ of the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer

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AbstractThis chapter, the General Report gives a comparative insight in the implementation strategies of all EU Member States (apart from Greece) while transposing the requirements of the EU Services Directive (SD) into national (administrative) law. This chapter comparatively analyses the different ways of the implementation in the Member States and by that gives a survey of different concepts and diverse perceptions of the requirements of the EU Services Directive. The General Report presents the commonalities and differences of the implementation of the Services Directive in 26 EU Member States (in particular as regards the most prominent requirements of ‘Points of Single Contact’, ‘tacit authorisation’, screening of national (administrative) law, and electronic administrative procedures et cetera) and gives a fruitful impression of the burden of transposing the Directive’s stipulations into national law. Finally general conclusions are drawn with respect to the impact of the Services Directive implementation in the EU Member States and on their heterogeneous administrative law systems.KeywordsEuropean UnionMember StateService DirectiveAdministrative ProcedureNational LegislatorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.