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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Professional Services in the EU Internal Market: Quality Regulation and Self-Regulation by Tinne Heremans
Professional services are a key component of the EU internal market yet also challenge its legal framework. Indeed specific professional regulatory structures hold clear potential for conflict with EU free movement and competition law rules. This book looks at how free movement and competition laws apply to different regulatory set-ups and at the extent to which leeway may be given to quality considerations. The book also explores those instruments of EU secondary legislation that are likely to impact the most on the provision of professional services. The book goes beyond a mere inventory applying a law and economics analysis to the questions of what type of regulation (self- co- or government regulation) and at what level - national and/or European - regulation should be adopted. The book offers an in-depth legal analysis of the EU framework as it applies to professional services and an evaluation of this framework based on insights from law and economics scholarship. It will therefore be a valuable resource for all practitioners policy-makers and academics dealing with professional services as well as more generally with questions of quality- and self-regulation.