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Our last agenda item is consideration of correspondence from the Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture on the services directive. Do members have any comments on the correspondence or the clerk's paper? The central recommendation is that we have an oral evidence session in April, following written evidence, on this important directive.
The directive was highlighted to us in either Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg—it had, as a Land, substantially influenced the directive in its original draft form. It had been reckoned that the Land would need to make 40 changes to the legislation at its level, but in the end only two or three changes were required, as a result of the changes that it managed to secure. The services directive was a very good example of Länder getting in early and being able to influence the legislation before it got anywhere near being a draft directive. Sorry—we are pre-empting a report there.
I see that no-one else wants to comment—are members content?
Thank you very much—there is a lot of good work on the go.
Meeting closed at 11:23.
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