With regard to temporary cross-border service provision, a derogation from the provision on the freedom to provide services in this Directive ensures that Title II on the free provision of services of Directive 2005/36/EC is not affected.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32006L0101 - EN - Council Directive 2006/101/EC of 20 November 2006 adapting Directives 73/239/EEC, 74/557/EEC and 2002/83/EC in the field of freedom to provide services, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania - COUNCIL DIRECTIVE // FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES

(2) A first step to facilitate the exercise of freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for insurance agents and brokers was made by Council Directive 77/92/EEC of 13 December 1976 on measures to facilitate the effective exercise of freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in respect of the activities of insurance agents and brokers (ex ISIC Group 630) and, in particular, transitional measures in respect of those activities(4).

6. Whereas, as a result, the taking up and the pursuit of the business of assurance are henceforth to be subject to the grant of a single official authorization issued by the competent authorities of the Member State in which an assurance undertaking has its head office; whereas such authorization enables an undertaking to carry on business throughout the Community, under the right of establishment or the freedom to provide services; whereas the Member State of the branch or of the provision of services may no longer require assuran ...[+++]ce undertakings which wish to carry on assurance business there and which have already been authorized in their home Member State to seek fresh authorization; whereas Directives 79/267/EEC and 90/619/EEC should therefore be amended along those lines;

However, the Commission considers that, in order to conclude insurance policies under the freedom to provide services, an insurer can have recourse to an establishment opened in the Member State of the provision of services for support activities either upstream or downstream of the conclusion of the insurance policy (e.g. use of risk assessment services or of local medical services, receipt of notices of claims relating to policies entered into under the freedom to provide services);

Whereas, as regards the provision of services, the Directive of 15 October 1963, while abolishing rules restricting the importation of films, did not abolish restrictions on the provision of services by distributors ; whereas the attainment of freedom to provide services poses certain economic problems in the Member States ; whereas, with a view to the solution of such problems, studies are in progress on the co-ordination of provisions relating to safeguards for creditors by setting up film registers ; whereas, therefore, liberalisation as regards the provision of services should be postponed for the present and the scope of this Dir ...[+++]ective should be confined to the attainment of freedom of establishment in respect of the activities in question;