European Union (EU) Directive 2013/55/EC (The Recognition of Professional Qualifications) allows Member States to decide on a common set of minimum knowledge, skills and competences that are needed ...to pursue a given profession through a Common Training Framework. To be adopted the framework must combine the knowledge, skills and competences of at least one third of the Member States. Professionals who have gained their qualifications under a Common Training Framework will be able to have these recognised automatically within the Union. The backbone of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine’s (EFLM) proposed Common Training Framework for non-medical
is outlined here. It is based on an Equivalence of Standards in education, training, qualifications, knowledge, skills, competences and the professional conduct associated with specialist practice. In proposing the recognition of specialist practice EFLM has identified 15 EU Member States able to meet Equivalence and in whom the profession and/or its training is regulated (an additional EU Commission requirement). The framework supports and contributes to the Directive’s enabling goals for increasing professional mobility, safeguarding consumers and ensuring a more equitable distribution of skills and expertise across the Member States. It represents EFLM’s position statement and provides a template for professional societies and/or competent authorities to engage with the EU Commission.
Changes in the current rhetoric of the European Commission (EC) have been revealed by reviewing the content of its press releases and measures taken to respond to the Russian special operation in ...Ukraine. The author of the article considers these changes dangerous, undermining the ideological foundations of European integration – openness and partnership, as well as standards and norms of the functioning of the Internal Market. An explanation of the current activity of the EC is offered: official Brussels uses the Ukrainian crisis to activate the economic conjuncture, as well as to increase the effectiveness or cover up the miscalculations of its policy in other areas such as green transition, strategic autonomy, global leadership. The EC's attempt to introduce criminal liability through European legislation for circumvention by European companies and countries of anti-Russian sanctions adopted at the EU level was tracked (the corresponding proposal was made on May 25). Two hypotheses have been formulated. First: the EC, whose existential goal is to expand its powers, de facto sees itself not only as a market regulator, but also as an EU power structure, increasingly coordinating the real European law enforcement agencies Europol, Eurojust and Frontex, which seems to be an equally dangerous trend for the future of European integration. Second: activation of the conjuncture and economic growth in the EU are impossible in conditions of a decrease in the resource and market base.
The aim of this short report is to stimulate a discussion on the state of a public health profession in Europe and actions which need to be taken to authorise public health professionals based on ...their competencies. While regulated professions such as medical doctors, nurses, lawyers, and architects can enjoy the benefits of the 2005/36/EC Directive amended by 2013/55/EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications, public health professionals are left out from these influential (elite) professions. Firstly, we use the profession traits theory as a framework in arguing whether public health can be a legitimate profession in itself; secondly, we explain who public health professionals are and what usually is required for shaping the public health profession; and thirdly, we attempt to sketch the road to the authorisation or licensing of public health professionals. Finally, we propose some recommendations.
Shaping and authorising a public health profession Katarzyna Czabanowska; Ulrich Laaser; Louise Stjernberg
South Eastern European journal of public health,
12/2015, Volume:
2, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The aim of this short report is to stimulate a discussion on the state of a public health profession in Europe and actions which need to be taken to authorise public health professionals based on ...their competencies. While regulated professions such as medical doctors, nurses, lawyers, and architects can enjoy the benefits of the 2005/36/EC Directive amended by 2013/55/EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications, public health professionals are left out from these influential (elite) professions. Firstly, we use the profession traits theory as a framework in arguing whether public health can be a legitimate profession in itself; secondly, we explain who public health professionals are and what usually is required for shaping the public health profession; and thirdly, we attempt to sketch the road to the authorisation or licensing of public health professionals. Finally, we propose some recommendations.
The aim of this short communication is to stimulate a discussion on the state of a public health profession in Europe and actions which need to be taken to authorise public health professionals based ...on their competencies. While regulated professions such as medical doctors, nurses, lawyers, and architects can enjoy the benefits of the 2005/ 36/EC Directive amended by 2013/55/EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications, public health professionals are left out from these elite. Firstly, we use the profession traits theory as a framework in arguing whether public health can be a legitimate profession in itself, second, we explain who public health professionals are and what usually is required for shaping the public health profession, and thirdly, we attempt to sketch the road to the authorisation or licencing of public health professionals. Finally, we will propose some recommendation.
Les Etats membres de l’Union européenne sont confrontés à des défis communs de l’offre de soins dont le vieillissement de la population, le déséquilibre entre l’offre et la demande de soins, ...l’augmentation des coûts des nouvelles technologies médicales. La mobilité des médecins peut être envisagée comme une réponse à ces défis, dans le cadre du droit de libre circulation des travailleurs de l’Union européenne. La thèse étudie la validité de ces réponses à partir d’une typologie des pays qui représente des systèmes de santé idéaux-typiques de l'Union (France, Royaume-Uni, Italie et Roumanie). Si la variable économique (montant de la rémunération) joue un rôle clé dans la migration, elle est ajustée en fonction des caractéristiques de la prestation des soins de santé des modèles d'organisation des systèmes de santé. Prenant acte de la diversité des réponses à ces défis formulées par les pays de l’Union européenne, l’étude propose quelques réflexions à l’amélioration de ces flux migratoires médicaux en s’appuyant sur des éléments clés du droit européen de la santé : droit de liberté de circulation des médecins salariés, de liberté d’établissement et de prestation de services pour les médecins exerçant en libéral, d’équivalence des diplômes et de coordination de différents systèmes de sécurité sociale.
European Union member states have faced growing challenges in health care provision, such as: an aging population, an imbalance between supply and demand for care, and the rising cost of new medical technologies. Physician mobility could be a response to these challenges in the context of the right of free movement of workers within the European Union (EU). This thesis examines the validity of these responses from a typology of countries representing ideal-type health systems in the EU (France, UK, Italy and Romania). If economic variable (amount of compensation) plays a key role in the migration, it is adjusted according to the characteristics of the delivery of health care organizational models of health systems. Noting the diverse response of EU member states to these challenges, the study offers some thoughts on improving the medical migration flows based on the following key elements of European health law: right to freedom of movement of salaried physicians, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for physicians in private practice, equivalence of diplomas and coordination of various social security systems.
Článek se zabývá problematikou specifickou pro Českou a Slovenskou republiku. Slovenské univerzity často přímo či prostřednictvím spolupráce s českými institucemi zajišťují univerzitní vzdělání ...vČeské republice na základě slovenské akreditace.Otázkou pak je, zda je taková činnost přípustná v dosahu unijního a českého práva. Dále je problematický fakt, zda lze takto získané slovenské diplomy vydané českým studentům studujícím v České republice uznat na základě směrnice o uznávání odborných kvalifikací.
Autor analyzuje tuto problematiku pohledem unijního práva regulujícího poskytování služeb a svobodu
usazování, včetně související judikatury Soudního dvora.Dochází k závěru, že unijní právo v zásadě
nebrání možnosti nepovolit takovou činnost, tedy že umožňuje členskému státu zabránit obcházení národního
systému akreditací. Pokud jde o uznávání kvalifikací, autor je toho názoru, že příslušná směrnice
by měla být interpretována s ohledem na své znění a účel. Jako taková může být vzata v potaz pouze
v těch situacích, kdy je dán dostatečně efektivní vztah mezi institucí poskytující příslušné vzdělání a zemí,
kde je toto vzdělání poskytováno.
The article deals with a problem specific for Slovak and Czech Republic. The Slovak universities, via their branches or in cooperation with Czech institutions in the Czech Republic, offer university degree education under the Slovak law. The question is whether such activity is permissible
under both the EU and Czech law. Another question is whether Slovak diplomas acquired by Czech students studying in the Czech Republic at institutions approved under the Slovak law are equal to Czech diplomas and as such shall be recognized under EU directive on the recognition of professional qualifications. The author analyses the regulation of provision of services and freedom of establishment and relevant case law of the Court of Justice and takes the view that EU law generally does not exclude the possibility to restrict the provision of such foreign education in the Czech Republic under the Czech law. As far as the recognition of professional qualifications is concerned, the author concludes, that the directive shall be interpreted according to its text and goal, meaning, that it can be applied only in situations where genuine and sufficient link between the law, according to which the university is entitled to provide the education, and actual place of education exists.
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