Already by adopting the 1996 Directive and, once again, in 2014, by adopting the Enforcement Directive, the Union legislature decided that facilitating the freedom to provide services, while ensuring a better level-playing field between national and cross-border service providers and an adequate protection of posted workers, was better achieved at Union level.
Već donošenjem Direktive iz 1996. i ponovno 2014., donošenjem Direktive o provedbi, zakonodavac Unije odlučio je da se omogućavanje slobode pružanja usluga, uz istovremeno osiguravanje ujednačenijih uvjeta za domaće i prekogranične pružatelje usluga i odgovarajuće zaštite upućenih radnika, bolje postiže na razini Unije.