1. Fostering economic growth by enabling cross-border business start-up
Dinand Tinholt – Programme Director SPOCS
Wendy Carrara – Deputy Prog. Director SPOCS
Forum of the Committee of the Regions - 30 November 2010

2. 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.
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3. Every single new business started up contributes 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
Non-financial service sector, 2006 data
Sources: Calculated /extrapolated from EUROSTAT 2006 tables on size and structure
Imagine what this means for governments’ tax income and avoiding
social security costs for unemployed persons!
Sources: Calculated from EUROSTAT 2006 tables on size and structure
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4. … Now imagine a fictional city
… Now imagine a fictional city. Doing business in Europe is a challenging journey…

5. Digital natives / governors convergence
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Digital natives / governors convergence
Doing business in Europe…. 5 5

6. But that has all changed now! Or has it?

7. The Services Directive today
(Hopefully) Compliance with the SD but still,…
heterogeneous national systems
No way using home infrastructures connected to services abroad
barriers using eServices
with SD
Interoperable Services
without SD

8. Removing borders in a digital era!
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!

9. How to achieve this?
Integration?
Interoperability!
No, but…

10. 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

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