From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Subject: Re: The Direct Debit Guarantee (DDG)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:06:59 +0100
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>>> wrote
>>>> The only reference to directive 7665/2007 is on your
>>>> website, ... Can you point me to an official EU website ?
>>>
>> Fergus O'Rourke wrote
>>>http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/payments/framework/index_en.htm
>>
> "Dave N" wrote
>> There is no document no. 7665 issued in 2007, according to Eur-Lex:
>>
>> 
>>
>> The proposal (COM(2005)603) to which you refer awaits ratification
>> by the European Council, according to the quoted web site, and does
>> not yet constitute a directive.  Do you have more recent information
>
"Fergus O'Rourke" wrote
> Yes. I was told that the Council enacted it.
>
> "Dave N" wrote
>>and, if so, can you provide a reference?  I don't
>> understand the reference 7665/2007 you've quoted, so
>> could you point me specifically to where you found it?
>
"Fergus O'Rourke" wrote
> I was given the information orally. Like yourself, I suspect
> that my informant was bit "previous", but I do note from
>
> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A6-2006-0298&language=EN&mode=XML
>
> that the text appears to have been agreed and
> my man at www.ipso.ie says its a done deal.

Does it say somewhere there that UK Direct Debits
will be part of this new "payment services" system?