This may also include raising awareness of corporate social responsibility, developing consciousness as regards employment rights, initiatives for respecting the labour code, reducing the grey economy and ways to transform undeclared work into regular employment.

Even if simplified, the obligation to register or to declare himself/herself gives the possibility for the host Member State to be informed and to have control over the behaviour of the doctors.

Yet, I would remind you that, at European level, there is a code of ethics that the Member States have undertaken to observe.

To guarantee the quality of information, operators in the sector (media-owning companies, editors and journalists) should adopt ethical standards (such as a code of ethics or rules on professional standards).

I would, however, emphasise the need to respect life in all its different forms, as well as the strict codes of conduct that govern the handling and use of substances as delicate and complex as these.

(32) In order to remove barriers to the development of cross-border services within the Community which members of the regulated professions might offer on the Internet, it is necessary that compliance be guaranteed at Community level with professional rules aiming, in particular, to protect consumers or public health; codes of conduct at Community level would be the best means of determining the rules on professional ethics applicable to commercial communication; the drawing-up or, where appropriate, the adaptation of such rules should be encouraged without prejudice to the autonomy of professional bodies and asso ...[+++]ciations.