Those tasks should include the power to receive notifications from credit institutions in relation to the right of establishment and the free provision of services, to supervise bodies which are not covered by the definition of credit institutions under Union law but which are supervised as credit institutions under national law, to supervise credit institutions from third countries establishing a branch or providing cross-border services in the Union, to supervise payments services, to carry out day-to-day verifications of credit ins ...[+++]titutions, to carry out the function of competent authorities over credit institutions in relation to markets in financial instruments, the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing and consumer protection.

2a. Member States shall encourage the establishment of co-regulatory mechanisms, involving consumers, user groups and service providers, with a view to developing codes of practice and monitoring service performance.

W hereas each Member State should thus be able to check, particularly if a temporary residence permit is issued, that the residence of the worker posted is for the purpose of providing a service or services in the Member State; whereas the freedom to provide services should always be of a temporary nature which must be determined on the basis of the continuity, frequency, and duration of the service; whereas the validity of the temporary residence permit should be capable of limitation to the period of validity of the EC service pro ...[+++]vision card on the grounds that the Member State intends to issue, in conformity with the freedom to provide services, a residence permit in accordance with its own national provisions for postings exceeding six or twelve months;

Whereas the freedom to provide services entails as a corollary the right of entry into and residence on the territory of the Member State in which the service is provided; whereas the "EU service provision card”, to be issued by the Member State in which the service provider is established, is intended to remove the legal uncertainties associated with the provision of cross-border services and thus facilitate the free movement of services ; whereas, in the case of an intention to provide cross-border services, the service provider should therefore be entitled to apply for an EU service provision card in the Member State in which he is ...[+++]established ; whereas this Directive, similarly, does not affect the undertakings of the Community and its Member States, given in the context of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); whereas the EU service provision card should include only the data required under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data;

Whereas, in accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in the third paragraph of Article 5 of the EC Treaty, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary for achieving the objective of the free movement of services; whereas it covers only the checks that precede the provision of cross-border services, but not the checks made in the Member State in which the service is provided; whereas it is limited to postings for periods of not more than twelve months and to the recognition of diplomas, certificates and oth ...[+++]er qualifications acquired within the Community;

Whereas, in accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in the third paragraph of Article 3b of the EC Treaty, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary for achieving the objective of the free movement of services; whereas it covers only the checks that precede the provision of cross-border services, but not the checks made afterwards in the Member State in which the service is provided; whereas it is limited to postings for periods of not more than twelve months and to the recognition of diplomas, certific ...[+++]ates and other qualifications acquired within the Community;