Autori u radu analiziraju primjenjuje li se Direktiva 2006/123/EZ Europskog parlamenta i Vijeća od 12. prosinca 2006. godine o uslugama na unutarnjem tržištu i na sustav visokog obrazovanja. U radu će prikazati postojeća teorijska razmatranja o toj problematici, kao i praksu Suda Europske unije. Autori će pokazati da se radi o iznimno složenoj problematici oko koje ne postoji konsenzus u teoriji, a postojeća praksa Suda Europske unije daje odgovore na određena pitanja, ali na niz pitanja koja se mogu postaviti glede eventualne primjene ove Direktive na sustav visokog obrazovanja Sud nije odgovorio. Sintezom teorije i prakse autori će pokazati da, prema njihovu mišljenju, navedena Direktiva nije primjenjiva na sustav javnog visokog obrazovanja. Odnosno, teza autora jest da je sustav visokog obrazovanja isključivi prerogativ država članica koje samostalno odlučuju kakav sustav visokog obrazovanja žele imati.; Authors in this paper analyse whether Directive 2006/123/EC European Parliament and Council of 12 December 2006 on the services in the internal market and in the system of higher education is being applied. Existing theoretical observations are shown on this problem area as is the practice of the European Union Court. The authors demonstrate that the problem area is extremely complex on which there is no consensus in theory. Existing European Court practice provides answers to certain questions. However, the Court has not given answers to many questions that can be raised given concerning possible application of this Directive on the system of higher education. The synthesis of theory and practice will demonstrate in the authors’ opinion, that the stated directive is not applicable to the system of public further education. That is, the authors propose that the system of further education is the exclusive prerogative of member states who independently decide on what kind of higher education system they wish to have.