This consultation stems from the Single Market Strategy which announced several actions to further develop the single market for services, in particular:

• An initiative introducing a services passport for key economic sectors;
• An action to address regulatory barriers for key business services and for construction services;
• An action on insurance requirements for business and construction service providers.

Reasons to discuss the need of services' passport?

• 83% of businesses say that complex procedures are a significant barrier to doing business in the single market
• Procedures to access other Member States often not electronic
• Service providers need to provide numerous documents, in many cases translated or certified
• Procedures are often without clear timelines
• Lack of information about applicable rules and procedures and limited trust between home and host Member States

A service passport could offer:

• one single interlocutor in the home Member State for the service provider
• secure electronic transmission of information from the home Member State to authorities in the host Member State
• one single common EU procedure
• clear timeline for the service provider with short and reliable deadlines 

The questionnaire will be available through the following link until Tuesday 26th July.
Questionnaire