Examples of using Cross-border services in English and their translations into Czech
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It is a bit like that with us and cross-border services.
His case proves that cross-border services are already functioning without this directive.
This regulation will apply to all long-distance(250 km or more) regular,national or cross-border services from spring 2013 onwards.
These rights apply to all regular national and cross-border services, provided that the distance travelled is equal to or greater than 250 km.
However, we also need more initiatives- as the rapporteur has rightly pointed out- to increase consumer confidence in cross-border services in the internal market.
Also I would like to stress that cross-border services are provided in many different ways.
We must therefore carefully ensure, through all the monitoring opportunities that have been made available to us, that cross-border services, too, do not violate this principle.
This policy aims to improve the legal framework for cross-border services whilst also simplifying procedures, which will increase competition.
In her report, Mrs Roithová has pointed out that there are still very many deficits in relation toInternet sales in particular, and that consumers still lack the requisite confidence in cross-border services here.
Confidence is indeed the key to stability in the banking system and also to cross-border services and business in the financial services sector.
Where consumers feel uncertain about the safety and quality of services, they tend to build up psychological barriers towards foreign suppliers,which dissuade them from using cross-border services.
In practice, this means that entrepreneurs who wish to set up a business abroad or provide cross-border services should be able to use a point of single contact.
We call on Member States to turn points of single contact into an e-government portal which will offer a complete range of online services to service providers wishing to set up an enterprise or offer cross-border services.
We urgently need initiatives in this direction, so thatconsumers have confidence in cross-border services, and that can only be achieved by strengthening their legal position.
Here in Strasbourg this report is also accompanied by an irrational fear of mentioning the country of origin principle,notwithstanding the fact that in many professions service providers do not have to know the neighbouring country's legislation in order to provide cross-border services.
In the end, the regulation is to apply to all regular national or cross-border services, provided that the scheduled distance travelled is equal to or greater than 250 km'long distance.
The report seeks to ensure that not only consumers but also small andmedium-sized businesses buying and selling cross-border services can benefit from additional legal certainty, simplicity and reduced costs.
In practical terms,entrepreneurs who wish to set up a business abroad or provide cross-border services should be able to use a PSC, which will explain all the formalities and procedures they must complete in order to set up their business.
It is wrong to suppose that this response hides misgivings about certain fundamental freedoms such as the freedom to provide cross-border services; we intend to safeguard this freedom in full, just as we intend to safeguard the principle of healthy and transparent competition.
The Commission does not have any enforcement powers;consumers who have purchased cross-border services can, however, complain to the European consumer centre in their home country, which should be able to help them receive redress from traders in other EU countries.
However, we accept the scope of the regulation as presented to us, which covers international,not cross-border, services, with the possibility of picking up and setting down passengers between stations within every Member State.
While health services were initially included in the draft proposal of the Bolkestein cross-border services proposal, it quickly became apparent that a stand-alone directive on this most important issue of health- which has ramifications for all aspects of health care in our 27 Member States- was needed.
Whilst the Council's proposal excludes regular urban, suburban andregional transport services as well as cross-border services, giving Member States the chance to avoid applying the legislation to national services for 15 years, the report substantially restores the important measures of the initial report.
Obligations of cross-border service providers vote.
They will be able to handle everything necessary for cross-border service provision, including information that is easy to understand on the formalities and administrative procedures of a given country.
The next item is the report by Lasse Lehtinen, on behalf of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection,on the obligations of cross-border service providers.
Now, the consumer acquis already sets out a number of obligations for cross-border service providers.
These include the lack of a single system regulating the obligations of cross-border service providers and the need to supplement Union documents in this regard.
Paradoxically, however, the consistent application of the Services Directive andthe removal of barriers to cross-border service provision might work as a catalyst for the economic growth of the entire EU, enabling the crisis to be overcome more rapidly.
Having said that,I have also to underline that the Commission takes a different view to Mr Lehtinen's report on the need for a separate horizontal instrument to cover obligations of cross-border service providers at this stage for the simple reason that we believe that we should first accomplish our ongoing initiatives before coming, if necessary, to a separate horizontal instrument.