translate English to French: The aim of these rules is to detail how, while observing the general principles of the Treaty and especially the principle of subsidiarity, and in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol on services of general interest, Member States shall safeguard the provision of social and health services that meet certain general-interest requirements of a specific nature, given that it is in the Community’s interest for the Member States to develop these services because they contribute to the effective realisation of its aims of strengthening social and territorial cohesion and ensuring that its fundamental rights are properly respected and because, at the current stage of development of the internal market, they have little impact on intra-Community trade.
La Commission estimant en effet "qu’il relève de l’intérêt de la Communauté de développer une approche systématique afin d'identifier et de reconnaître les particularités des SSIG et de clarifier le cadre dans lequel ils fonctionnent et peuvent être modernisés".