Doctors: free movement and mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and others formal qualifications

The Council common position follows the amended Commission proposal, incorporating the 5 European Parliament amendments which were, in their essentials, accepted by the Commission. The Council nevertheless opted for the variant III(a) comitology procedure (regulatory, rather than management, committee) for the purpose of updating the list of designations of specialist medical training courses and the corresponding lists of minimum lengths of training. �