- authorisation scheme
means any procedure under which a provider or recipient is in effect required to take steps in order to obtain from a competent authority a formal decision, or an implied decision, concerning access to a service activity or the exercise thereof;
- commercial communication
means any form of communication designed to promote, directly or indirectly, the goods, services or image of an undertaking, organisation or person engaged in commercial, industrial or craft activity or practising a regulated profession.
- competent authority
means any body or authority which has a supervisory or regulatory role in a Member State in relation to service activities, including, in particular, administrative authorities, including courts acting as such, professional bodies, and those professional associations or other professional organisations which, in the exercise of their legal autonomy, regulate in a collective manner access to service activities or the exercise thereof;
- direct and particular risk
means a risk arising directly from the provision of the service,
- establishment
means the actual pursuit of an economic activity, as referred to in Article 43 of the Treaty, by the provider for an indefinite period and through a stable infrastructure from where the business of providing services is actually carried out;
- financial security
means, in relation to a recipient, the prevention of substantial losses of money or of value of property,
- health and safety
means, in relation to a recipient or a third person, the prevention of death or serious personal injury,
- Member State of establishment
means the Member State in whose territory the provider of the service concerned is established;
- Member State where the service is provided
means the Member State where the service is supplied by a provider established in another Member State;
- overriding reasons relating to the public interest
means reasons recognised as such in the case law of the Court of Justice, including the following grounds: public policy;
- professional liability insurance
means insurance taken out by a provider in respect of potential liabilities to recipients and, where applicable, third parties arising out of the provision of the service.
- provider
means any natural person who is a national of a Member State, or any legal person as referred to in Article 48 of the Treaty and established in a Member State, who offers or provides a service;
- recipient
means any natural person who is a national of a Member State or who benefits from rights conferred upon him by Community acts, or any legal person as referred to in Article 48 of the Treaty and established in a Member State, who, for professional or non-professional purposes, uses, or wishes to use, a service;
- regulated profession
means a professional activity or a group of professional activities as referred to in Article 3(1)(a) of Directive 2005/36/EC;
- requirement
means any obligation, prohibition, condition or limit provided for in the laws, regulations or administrative provisions of the Member States or in consequence of case-law, administrative practice, the rules of professional bodies, or the collective rules of professional associations or other professional organisations, adopted in the exercise of their legal autonomy;
- service
means any self-employed economic activity, normally provided for remuneration, as referred to in Article 50 of the Treaty;