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Item 3 is consideration of a paper from the clerk on the EU services directive, which is a far-reaching directive that must be implemented in domestic law by December 2009. The paper sets out the directive's key aspects, current developments and proposals for advancing the work. Do members have any comments on it?
It is a good paper—informative and comprehensive—and I congratulate the clerks on making some sense out of the directive. I am happy with the recommendations.
Hear, hear.
I am happy with the recommendations, but I suggest that it might be worth drawing the directive to the attention of the regional Parliaments that we intend to visit to see whether they have any comments on it that might be helpful to the reporters when we visit.
That is helpful. I am sure that we can build it in.