Item 4 on the agenda for that meeting is the"Commission's report on barriers to an internal market for services",which is very relevant to PE320.Our Executive briefing states:"The Commission's report ‘The state of the Internal market for Services' published on 30 July 2002 marks the end of the first stage of its original two-stage Internal Market Strategy for Services. It is a comprehensive account of the difficulties encountered both by providers and recipients of services across the EU according to the consultations carried out by the Commission and Member States or which have been identified by complaints, written and oral Parliamentary questions, petitions, studies and surveys.The Commission will present the Report at the Competitiveness Council on 30 September 2002.