Free movement of professionals, Directive 2005/36/EC – Policy developments, Evaluation of the Directive

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Evaluation of the Directive

The European Commission has conducted a major evaluation of the Professional Qualifications Directive (Directive 2005/36/EC).

What is an evaluation? An evaluation by the Commission follows once legislation has been introduced at European level and implemented at national level. It is an evidence-based assessment of how well legislation has been achieving its objectives and whether the objectives of such legislation are still pertinent in the light of potentially changing needs. The final evaluation report PDF is now available.


Study evaluating the Professional Qualifications Directive against recent educational reforms in EU Member States


Experience reports from competent authorities and national coordinators

As a first step in the evaluation process, the European Commission reached out to competent authorities and national coordinators of the Directive, requesting them to share their own experience with the acquis on professional qualifications. In a second step, DG Internal Market and Services launched a public consultation on 7 January 2011.

The published reports are presented by competent authorities and national coordinators of the Directive.

These reports do neither reflect the views of the European Commission nor its services, neither of the European Parliament nor of the governments in Member States.

The European Commission issued further publications linked to this subject: statistics appear in a specific section of the Internal Market Scoreboard published on 22 September 2010 and a proper analysis of the Commission services on how Member States have transposed the Directive is contained in the attached staff working paper.

  • Summary PDF of experience reports for certain professions (doctor, nurse, midwife, pharmacist)
  • Experience reports from national competent authorities
  • Commission staff working paper on the transposition and implementation of the Directive PDFEnglish
  • Press release
  • Speech by Commissioner Barnier (26.10.2010)

Additional experience reports (22 December 2010)

  • Experience report – doctor
    • Belgium PDFEnglish
  • Experience report – nurse
    • Belgium PDFEnglish (corrected version)
  • Experience report – dentist
    • Belgium PDFEnglish
  • Experience report – midwife
    • Belgium PDFEnglish
  • Experience report – pharmacist
    • Belgium PDFEnglish (corrected version)

Additional experience reports (3 December 2010)

  • Experience report – dentist
    • Denmark PDF English
    • Spain PDFEnglish
    • France PDFEnglish
    • Luxembourg PDFEnglish
    • Austria PDFEnglish
    • Portugal PDFEnglish
    • United Kingdom PDFEnglish

Additional experience reports (15 November 2010)

  • Architect: "Preface to the experience report of Architects' Competent Authorities", October 2010 PDFEnglish
  • Experience report – doctor
    • Germany PDFEnglish
    • Greece PDFEnglish
    • Italy PDFEnglishItaliano
    • Austria PDFEnglish
  • Experience report – nurse
    • Germany PDFEnglish
    • Greece PDFEnglish
    • Italy PDFEnglishItaliano
  • Experience report – dentist
    • Germany PDFEnglish
    • Greece PDFEnglish
    • Italy PDFEnglishItaliano
  • Experience report – veterinary surgeon
    • Czech Republic PDFEnglish
    • Germany PDFEnglish
    • Italy PDFEnglishItaliano
    • Latvia PDFEnglish
  • Experience report – midwife
    • Germany PDFEnglish
    • Italy PDFEnglishItaliano
  • Experience report – pharmacist
    • Greece PDFEnglish
    • Italy PDFEnglishItaliano
  • Experience report – architect
    • Denmark PDFEnglish
  • Experience report covering other regulated professions -
    • Part I (Greece PDFEnglish / Latvia PDFEnglish / Portugal PDFportuguês)
    • Part II (Slovakia PDFEnglish)

Background documents

22.09.2010   Internal market scoreboard n° 21
13.09.2010 Summary report – meeting 17 March 2010 with professional organisations on evaluation of directive regarding professional qualifications PDFEnglish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: 29.02.2012