EuCheMS input on modernising the professional qualifications directive

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EuCheMS submitted a response to the consultation on Modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive. This Directive, adopted in 2005, sets the 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 (i) new approaches to mobility, (ii) ways to build on achievements, (iii) and on the modernisation of the automatic recognition.

 

EuCheMS underlined the importance of setting up the system that enables recognition of educational degrees obtained in various countries and of establishment of the European professional card, especially as the European Chemist Award (EurChem) was first introduced in 1992 by European Communities Chemistry Council (ECCC) on the initiation from European Administration.

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