| the natural persons are engaged in the supply of a service on a temporary basis as employees of a legal person, who has no commercial presence in any Member State of the European Community.the legal person has obtained a service contract, for a period not exceeding three months from a final consumer in the Member State concerned, through an open tendering procedure or any other procedure which guarantees the bona fide character of the contract (e.g. advertisement of the availability of the contract) where this requirement exists or is introduced in the Member State pursuant to the laws, regulations ...[+++] and requirements of the Community or its Member States.the natural person seeking access should be offering such services as an employee of the legal person supplying the service for at least the year (two years in the case of EL) immediately preceding such movement.the temporary entry and stay within the Member State concerned shall be for a period of not more than three months in any 12-month period (six months in the case of EE; 24 months in the case of NL) or for the duration of the contract, whatever is less.the natural person must possess the necessary academic qualifications and professional experience as specified for the sector or activity concerned in the Member State where the service is supplied.the commitment relates only to the service activity which is the subject of the contract; it does not confer entitlement to exercise the professional title of the Member State concerned.the number of the persons covered by the service contract shall not be larger than necessary to fulfil the contract, as it may be decided by the laws, regulations and requirements of the Community and the Member State where the service is supplied.the service contract has to be obtained in one of the activities mentioned below and subject to the additional conditions mentioned in the subsector by the Member State concerned: | | |

The supply of services of agents as referred to in the seventh indent of Article 9(2)(e) of Directive 77/388/EEC shall cover the services of agents acting in the name and for the account of the recipient of the service procured and services performed by the agents acting in the name and for the account of the provider of the service procured.

Institutions that are completely separated from any sponsoring undertaking and that operate on a funded basis for the sole purpose of providing retirement benefits, including all other nationally regulated and supervised institutions that offer funded occupational pension schemes, should have freedom to provide services and freedom of investment subject only to coordinated prudential requirements, regardless of whether these instit ...[+++]utions are considered as legal entities.

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 en ...[+++]titled 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 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, in the absence of uniform national documents covering the various aspects of movement, a document known as an "EC service provision card” should be the instrument facilitating the provision of cross-border services with a view to current or potential movements in connection with normal activities ; whereas it should be for the service provider to decide whether to apply for the EC service provision card; whereas thi ...[+++]s 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 EC 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 each Member State in which a service is provided should continue to be able, in the case of providers without an EU service provision card, to make it obligatory to declare, before the entry of the provider concerned into the territory, his intended presence and the service or services for which he is moving; whereas an obligation to make a prior declaration should enable the Member State in question to take measures in sp ...[+++]ecific cases on grounds of public order, public security or public health, within the limits set by this Directive; whereas each Member State in which a service is provided should also be able to make it obligatory to obtain, after entry, a temporary residence permit if the time required for the services for which the self-employed person is moving exceeds six months out of a period of twelve months; whereas the period of validity of a residence permit should be limited to the period of validity of the EU service provision card on the grounds that the Member State intends to issue a residence permit in accordance with its own rules in the case of residence for a period of more than twelve months;