Public service: The European Parliament adopted the Gebhardt report for the Services Directive (Gebhardt Report)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – European Parliament, Gebhardt report on behalf of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, document No A6-0409/2005 final of 15 December 2005 on the proposal for a directive on services in the internal market. The proposal for a Services Directive (see COM(2004) 2 of 13 Jan. 2004) is intended to apply to the whole service sector, the question arises of its articulation with the state of Community law applicable to services of general interest (SGIs), and more particularly to those of an economic nature (SGEIs), with reference to Articles 16 and 86(2) EC, the abundant sectoral regulation applicable to the energy, postal,