On 9 July 2021, the EU Commission presents its updated reform recommendations on regulation of seven professional business services. The aim of the recommendations is to incentivize and assist member states in creating a regulatory environment that is conducive to growth, innovation, and job creation and above all to do away with persisting obstacles in the single market for services.

The recommendations focus on seven professional business services with high growth, innovation, and jobs potential: architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, patent agents, real estate agents and tourist guides. The recommendations address national rules that regulate access to and exercise of these services, for instance by reserving broad areas of activities to professionals with specific qualifications or limiting the types of company forms and ownership structures allowed. Those practices can restrict competition as well as businesses' access to capital, economies of scale and innovation.