The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7346 p480
23 April 2005

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Changes suggested for EU cross-border services plan

All publicly funded health services will be excluded from European plans to create a single market in services if members of the European Parliament accept proposed amendments to a draft European directive (PDF 220K) on cross-border services (PJ, 19 March, p326).

The proposed changes have been put forward following meetings of a working party on the draft directive. Changes have also been put forward to the controversial proposal that companies offering services throughout the EU would only have to meet the national standards of the country in which they are based and not those of countries in which those services are used. But they would still allow any lawfully established provider to offer private health services across national borders.