Trade Regulation and Policy in the EU Internal Market

An Assessment through the Services Directive

Elgar Studies in European Law and Policy

Isidora Maletić, Senior Lecturer in Law Education and Fellow of the Centre of European Law, King’s College London, UK

Exploring the importance of the EU Services Directive (Directive 2006/123), this book provides an expansive insight into the controversial legislation regulating the internal market in services, whilst examining the challenges of positive harmonisation. In addition, by analysing the functioning and judicial interpretation of the directive, it considers EU trade regulation values and the broader significance of EU regulation in global regulatory standard setting.

‘Understanding EU internal market law today requires a lot more than just examining the market freedoms through its rationale of negative integration, as they are contained in the EU Treaties. Rather, supplementing this is positive integration, which plays an increasingly important role in complementing the freedoms. Together, negative and positive integration now play an interrelated role in ensuring cross-border access to the provision of services, and the receipt of services. In this book, Maletić’s thorough analysis of the Services Directive clearly demonstrates this, and provides further insight into what the future holds as the EU’s internal market continues to evolve.’
– Graham Butler, Aarhus University, Denmark