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Consultation: Modernising the Professional Qalifications Directive
20 september 2011

Target group:
Everybody is welcome to contribute to this consultation. Contributions are particularly sought from citizens, professional organisations, national governments and national competent authorities.

Objective of consultation:
The Green Paper is aimed at gathering stakeholders’ views on a modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive (Directive 2005/36/EC).

In 2005 a directive is adopted which sets rules for mutual recognition of professional qualifications between Member States. Beyond a few innovations, it mainly consolidated and simplified 15 previous Directives, some of which dated back to the 1960s.

The reform of the system of recognition of professional qualifications as a means to facilitate mobility is one of the priority actions proposed by the Commission in the Single Market Act. With the view to preparing this reform, the Commission wishes to consult stakeholders on

  • new approaches to mobility
  • ways to build on achievements
  • and on the modernisation of the automatic recognition

on 7th nov there will be also a public conference

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