Directive 93/16 / EEC
 Directive 93/16 / EEC |
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| Title: | Council Directive 93/16 / EEC of April 5, 1993 to facilitate the free movement of doctors and for the mutual recognition of their diplomas, examination certificates and other qualifications |
| Designation: (not official) |
Free movement guideline for doctors |
| Date of issue: | April 5, 1993 |
| Release date: | July 7, 1993 |
| Come into effect: | April 15, 1993 |
| Replaced by: | Directive 2005/36 / EC |
| Expiry: | October 19, 2007 |
| Full text |
Consolidated version (not official) basic version |
| Regulation has expired. | |
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Council Directive 93/16 / EEC of April 5, 1993 to facilitate the free movement of doctors and for the mutual recognition of their diplomas, test certificates and other qualifications (unofficially short: Free Movement Directive for Doctors ) regulates the mutual recognition of basic and specialist training in the Member States. It is the relevant guideline for the migration of doctors in the European Economic Area and provides for the automatic recognition of the degrees and specialist titles listed in the guideline in the member states. Doctors with specialist training that are not provided for in the directive for their country of origin must, on request, meet the further training conditions prescribed in the host country, ie acquire a corresponding qualification in the host country. Further training periods that have already been completed in the country of origin must be taken into account. Directive 93/16 / EEC and its successors provide for minimum requirements for basic and specialist medical training. General medical training is dealt with separately in Title IV of the Directive, as there were major differences in the specific requirements in the Member States. In the course of this harmonization, the professional title of general practitioner was abolished in Germany and replaced by specialist training as a general practitioner .
The nationals of the Member States are entitled to use the training title acquired in their home country in the host country.
On June 1, 2002, an agreement with Switzerland came into force, which implemented Directive 93/16 under the assumption that Switzerland was the fictitious member state there. In addition to adjustments after the admission of Austria , Finland and Sweden to the EU (May 1, 2004), Directive 93/16 was amended several times:
- Directive 97/50 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 6, 1997 changed some details in various articles and introduced Article 44a. The aim was to create an efficient change process in order to be able to react promptly to changes in medical training.
- Directive 98/21 / EC of the Commission of 8 April 1998, the term "occupational medicine" in led Belgium and Luxembourg , and changed the name used in the Netherlands. In addition, the term “Socialmedicin” has been added for Sweden .
- Commission Directive 98/63 / EC of September 3, 1998 changed some specialist names in the Member States, particularly in Great Britain .
- Directive 99/46 / EC of the Commission of May 21, 1999 changed various specialist names for this country at the request of Italy .
- Directive 2001/19 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 14, 2001 improved the freedom of movement for doctors by simplifying or abolishing aptitude tests or required professional experience. Furthermore, the legal certainty for qualifications from third countries should be improved and the automatic recognition of qualifications was also extended to other medical professions such as pharmacists, dentists or nurses.
Directive 93/16 / EEC was repealed on October 19, 2007 and replaced by Directive 2005/36 / EC .
Individual evidence
- ↑ EUR-Lex - 32005L0036 - EN - EUR-Lex. In: eur-lex.europa.eu. September 7, 2005, accessed July 20, 2020 .
