Completion of the EU Internal Market in Services Sector

This thesis is devoted to complex analysis of the service sector within the EU internal market. The first chapter deals with definition of the internal market and position of service sector within this market. Further it scatches the international liberalization of services and the role of EU in the (GATS) proces. Because the service sector permanently developes and inovates I felt as neccsary to deal with the categorisation issue in the second chapter. Here I also define the sectors for further exam ination in the thesis. In the third chaptre this individual sectors are described. This is done from the perspective of their importance within the internal market as well as from the perspective of the legislative activity of the European Community in these sectors. Important chapter is chapter no. 4 in which are described the bariers in provision (cross boarder) of services within the internal market. The following chapter describes the legislative activity of the European Community (primary law and strategic papers). Here, the most important part is the description of the last draft propsal of the service directive. The two out of the three remaining chapters are dealing with the negative impact of the fragmented internal market with services and improvements that can be brought by its completion. In this..