On 2 December, IMCO voted on the draft report on "Strengthening the Single Market: the future of free movement of services". The report underlines the need to ensure implementation of the single market rules for services and to improve the enforcement action of the European Commission.
It stresses the need to evaluate the level of implementation of the EU legal framework for services and to empower companies by providing them better access to information. 288 amendments were submitted to the report. The rapporteur drafted a comprehensive set of 11 compromise amendments, which were discussed at technical and Shadows' meetings aiming at finding common ground on the issues highlighted by the political groups. The report was adopted by 31 votes in favour, 3 votes against and 11 votes against.
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