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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall try to summarise very briefly the content of a directive that is of particular importance to many tens of millions of European professionals, and above all to all EU citizens, who have to deal with professionals every day.
This extremely important directive relates to a fundamental theme, namely the completion of the internal market. National autonomy means that each Member State lays down rules and procedures for the practice of the professions, whereas under the Treaties every EU citizen should be able to enjoy the right to work in any other Member State of the Union, either temporarily or permanently, on a par with any citizen of the host country. National autonomy means that each government decides on the minimum standards of education and training required for access to the individual professions and also establishes who shall authorise and control the practice of the professions.
Within this context of respect for the Treaties, respect for national autonomy and the principle of subsidiarity, we need to harmonise the system. Countless directives have regulated this area over the past decades, but with this directive Parliament is unifying them into a single provision within the framework of an overall macrosystem – while respecting certain special features and certain professions.
The points contained in the directive are fundamental. For the sake of brevity I shall highlight just a few of them. The Treaties mention liberal professionals but never define them. In this directive we define liberal professions for the first time, albeit within a recital. This is a remarkable step forwards, partly because, by referring to certain specific articles in the Treaty, Parliament is laying down a definitive framework to form the legal basis for future provisions.
The directive introduces a fundamental definition – that of competent authority – meaning those national bodies and soon, we hope, according to the preamble to the directive, European ones too. Such a definition should put an end to the debate that dragged on during the last legislative term about orders, colleges and associations. All those bodies can at last be included either in the context of national legislations or within the framework of European law.
The directive covers a raft of other fundamental new ideas: ‘qualifications shopping’ is avoided; those exercising public authority – notaries in particular – are excluded from the area of free movement; and the possibility of acting according to the country of origin principle is precluded – we shall try to delimit this point in another directive. In addition, it establishes that representatives of the individual professions shall be consulted in future at a European level in relation to any other innovation that concerns them.
I still have two more points to mention. Some European professionals – German craftsmen and Italian engineers, for instance – feel that there is no room for them in this directive, but that is not the case. In conjunction with the Commission, we shall try in future to solve specific problems through common platforms and other instruments.
Mr President, I shall conclude by thanking Parliament as a whole. Parliament is in perfect agreement on this directive, and I am also very pleased at the exceptionally good relationship that we have had with the Presidency and the Commission. That understanding has enabled us to reach a compromise on which everyone agrees, one that ennobles the work of the European Union, puts an end to daily bureaucracy and opens the door to a more certain and less bureaucratic future. The directive we shall be adopting tomorrow is certainly a major innovation for our Europe, for the Europe that we all want."@en1
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