The European Commission has very recently published a package of measures aiming at facilitating the provision of services by professionals and companies to a potential customer base of 500 million people in the EU.
Amongst these measures figures the setting up of a European Services e-card (which at one point the Commission was planning to name “European Services Passport”), an instrument that could be interest for EurEta level professionals.
According to the European Commission, the European Services e-card is “a simplified electronic procedure that will make it easier for providers of business services (e.g. engineering firms, IT consultants, organisers of trade shows) and construction services to complete the administrative formalities required to provide services abroad. Services providers will simply have to liaise with a single interlocutor in their home country and in their own language. The home country interlocutor would then verify the necessary data and transmit it to the host Member State. The host Member State retains the current power to apply domestic regulatory requirements and to decide whether the applicant can offer services on its territory. The e-card would not affect existing employer obligations or workers’ rights.”
More information can be found at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-23_en.htm
The Executive Board of EurEta will of course study the document and come back to you with more information and suggestions in the coming weeks.