Directive 2005/36/EC
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Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications provides for a system of recognition of professional experience and promotes automatic recognition of professional experience across the European Union (EU). It covers the European Economic Area and has been amended several times.[1]
The qualifications of some professions, such as doctors and architects, have been extensively harmonised; in addition, it offers more general guidelines for other professions, that have not been specifically regulated this directive, or other specific rules. Any form of work that would normally be restricted in a member state to people who had gained a professional qualification in that member state are also open to nationals of the EU (and member states of the European Economic Area) who have gained a similar professional qualification in another member state.[2]
Professions regulated in most or all EU states include:
- Accountancy
- British-qualified accountants (Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) or Chartered Accountant (ACA or CA) or International Accountant (AIA) in the United Kingdom (UK)
- Engineering
- Chartered Engineer or EUR ING (European Engineer), Incorporated Engineer (UK), corporate membership of a UK professional engineering institution such as Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Teaching
- Teachers (qualified teacher status in the UK)
- Law
- Lawyers (barristers, solicitors and advocates in the UK).
See also
- European Chemist
- European Engineer
- European Qualifications Framework
- Homologation
- Incorporated Engineer