Commissioner Michel Barnier presented a document by the European Commission entitled “Towards a Single Market Act For a Highly Competitive Social Market Economy”, which contains 50 proposals, 8 of which particularly caught our attention:

- Continuing the mutual evaluation process of the Services directive

- Legislative proposals aimed at simplifying and updating the European rules for awarding public contracts

- A legislative initiative on service concessions to encourage public-private partnerships

- The double objective of promoting regulatory cooperation with third-country regimes and pushing for wider adoption of international standards in negotiations for trade agreements

- A set of actions on services of general interest

- The launch of a public consultation related to corporate governance

- An initiative on the use of alternative dispute resolution in the EU

- A public discussion of a European approach to class action lawsuits

Access to the complete document:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2010:0608:FIN:FR:PDF