Abstract
The EU Services Directive (SD) is a centrepiece for the realisation of the Internal Market in the services sector aiming at considerably lowering the barriers for service provision in the EU. This chapter therefore analyses the transposition and implementation of the requirements of the SD into the national (administrative) law system of Denmark. The chapter treats all relevant requirements of the SD, such as the Point of Single Contact (POSC), the screening of national law according to the requirements of the SD, the adaption of authorisation schemes for service provision, the requirement of ‘tacit authorisation’, and the need for new rules on administrative cooperation. Finally an assessment of the impact of the SD on the national (administrative) law system is provided.
The author is Professor of Law, PHD, Centre of Legal Studies in Welfare and EU Market Integration (WELMA), Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University.
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2006/123/EC (2006), OJ, L 376, p. 36.
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See http://www.deaca.dk, last visited July 2010.
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Bill of 4 February 2009 proposed by the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs (Lovforslag L 122 af 4. februar 2009, fremsat af Erhvervs- og økonomiministeren).
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See T. Frydenberg, M. Bresson, and J. Them Parnas (2009) (the authors of the article are civil servants from the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs), available at http://www.djoef.dk/Udgivelser/Juristen/Juristen2009/Juristen-nr-9-2009/Servicedirektivet-og-lov-om-tjenesteydelser-i-det-indre-marked.aspx, last visited July 2010, and H. Peytz and L. Spangsberg Grønfeldt (2009), p. 36 (the authors are practising lawyers). A general analysis, produced by Danish academic lawyers prior to the implementation—can be found in U. Neergaard, R. Nielsen, and L. M. Roseberry (eds) (2008).
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See also the economic analysis in Economic effects of liberalising international trade, DEACA, Copenhagen, December 2005. The report is available in English.
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Act No. 571 on General Administrative Procedures (Forvaltningslov) of 19 December 1985 with amendments.
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For a general introduction to Danish General Administrative Law, see Dahl et al. (2002), p. 145.
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The European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour was approved in September 2000 by the European Parliament, and the code plays a significant role in practice in relation to the maladministration of the European Ombudsman. See www.ombudsman.europa.eu, last visited July 2010.
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See Amendments No. 347 of the General Administrative Procedures Act of 6 June 1991, No. 215 of 22 April 2002, No. 382 of 6 June 2002, No. 215 of 31 March 2004, No. 553 of 24 June 2005, No. 501 of 12 June 2009, and No. 503 of 12 June 2009.
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Act No. 429 on the Processing of Personal Data (Lov om behandling af personoplysninger) of 31 May 2000, with amendments.
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All those mentioned were amended by Law No. 364 of 13 May 2009 (Ændring af næringsloven, markedsføringsloven, erhvervsfremmeloven and forskellige andre love på Økonomi- og Erhvervsministeriets område), Act No. 510 on Copyright (Ophavsretslov) of 12 June 2009, and Act No. 498 of 12 June 2009 (Ændring af lov om inkassovirksomhed og lov om vagtvirksomhed).
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See infra n. 14–16.
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Regulation No. 1361 of 15 December 2009 (Bekendtgørelse om pligt til indrapportering af krav til Europa-Kommisionen), issued on the basis of the Danish Law on Services in the Internal Market.
- 14.
Regulation No. 1362 of 15 December 2009 (Bekendtgørelse om elektronisk kontaktpunkt), issued on the basis of the Law on Services in the Internal Market.
- 15.
Regulation No. 1363 of 15 December 2009 (Bekendtgørelse om administrativt samarbejde med kompetente myndigheder i andre EU/EØS-lande), issued on the basis of the Danish Law on Services in the Internal Market.
- 16.
Regulation No. 1372 of 16 December 2009 (Bekendtgørelse om tjenesteyderes pligt til at give oplysninger til tjenestemodtagere), issued on the basis of the Danish Law on Marketing.
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Cp. Articles 9 (2) and 39 (5) of the Services Directive.
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See T. Frydenberg, M. Bresson, and J. Them Parnas (2009).
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http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/eu-go, last visited July 2010.
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See supra n. 14.
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http://www.virk.dk/English/businessindenmark, last visited July 2010.
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The establishment of the website was already envisaged in the report Action Plan for the Global Marketing of Denmark by the Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs, Copenhagen, April 2007, p. 47, on the establishment of a ‘quick service desk’. The plan is available in English at www.oem.dk, last visited July 2010.
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A concise survey of the amendments of Danish acts resulting from the Directive can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/docs/2010/services_directive/denmark_en.pdf, last visited July 2010.
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See supra n. 13.
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See supra n. 16.
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See supra n. 15.
- 27.
See supra n. 10.
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Gøtze, M. (2012). Implementation of the Services Directive in Denmark. In: Stelkens, U., Weiß, W., Mirschberger, M. (eds) The Implementation of the EU Services Directive. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-840-8_7
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