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Dinand Tinholt – Programme Director SPOCS - @tinholt
Wendy Carrara – Deputy Prog. Director SPOCS - @wcarrara
Forum of the Committee of the Regions - 30 November 2010
Fostering economic growth by enabling cross-border business start-up
Services are crucial to the European Internal Market
The service sector is the main driver of growth and jobs in EU!
Service sector represents around 70% of GDP and employment
74% of the total number of enterprises in the non-financial business economy is a service enterprise
95% of new created jobs in recent years is within the service sector
The increase in wealth attributable to the Internal Market the last 10 years is nearly € 900 billion
Services are the main driver of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Western Europe representing 60% of new FDI jobs
Sources: Eurostat, Commission report “Employment in Europe 2006”, Ernst & Young’s 2008 European attractiveness survey.
Every single new business started upcontributes strongly to the economy
The average enterprise in the services sector in Europe creates on average:
Turnover: EUR 1,100,000
Profit: EUR 210,580
Number of employed persons: 6.4 FTE
Foreign-controlled service enterprises on the other hand:
Generated a profit of on average EUR 560,000
and employ 53 FTE on average
Sources: Calculated from EUROSTAT 2006 tables on size and structure
Imagine what this means for governments’ tax income and avoiding social security costs for unemployed persons!
… Now imagine a fictional city. Doing business in Europe is a challenging journey…
Registration (forwarded to aliens dept.due to f ree movement authorisation)
Information to central trade register
Good-conduct certif icate
Info on entries in the debtor directory
Attestation: no insolvency proceedings
Tax number
Tax clearance certif icate
Trade authorisation
Registration of a business (notif ies otherauthorities which get in contact, if required
Attestation of trade register registration applctn
Registration in trade register/ issue ofexcerpt form commercial register
Building licence, if required
Direct contact with trade supervisoryof f ice, if required
Application for company number
Registration of employees
Healthinsurancecompany
Job centreTradesupervisoryoffice
Localbuildingauthority
NotaryTrade office
Taxauthority
Local court
Municipalregistryoffice
Procedures over procedures in each MS
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Is EU globally competitive??
A waste of time and money
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Digital natives /
governors convergence
Doing business in Europe….
But that has all changed now! Or has it?
with SD
CA
MS B
MS C
MS D
PSC
PSC
PSC
ServiceProvider
MS B
MS C
MS D
MS A
CA
Where to go?
without SD
Intero
pera
ble
Se
rvices
(Hopefully) Compliance with the SD but still,…
– heterogeneous national systems
– No way using home infrastructures connected to services abroad
– barriers using eServices
The Services Directive today
What will SPOCS do?
Adopt, adapt and create the new interoperability “lego blocks” and use them for cross-border business startup
…with 16 European Countries and 30+ Partners!
The challenge?
Removing borders in a digital era!
How to achieve this?
Integration? Interoperability!
No, but…
Countries, regions and cities must choose and act to be competitive
Benchlearning projects show €12m administrative savings p.a for small countries for just one service
Improving offline services and taking them online can save up to 5 times the costs in administrative procedures
With many business registrations in the
EU annually it is important to make this
easier
Make it simple for foreign and local
businesses
For further information visit our website
www.eu-spocs.eu
Or contact: [email protected]
Twitter: @tinholt
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