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

By adopting the report by Mrs Nicole FONTAINE (PPE, F), the European Parliament approved the joint text. The text adopted incorporated the essence of the 4 amendments adopted by the European Parliament at second reading, namely : - the preference for a management committee instead of a regulatory committee, - an effective role for the Advisory Committee on Medical Training in connection with the application of the Directive to facilitate the free movement of doctors and the mutual recognition of their diplomas (the Committee would have the task of helping to ensure a comparably demanding standard of medical training in the Community, with regard both to the training both of doctors and of medical specialists). It also took into account the question of nationals of the Member States who hold qualifications awarded in third countries.�