CELEX: 62007CJ0084
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 92/51/EEC
Recognition of diplomas
Studies completed in an ‘independent study centre’ not recognised as an educational establishment by the host Member State
Optician

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Articles 3, 4(1)(b) and 12 of Council Directive 92/51/EEC
of 18 June 1992 on a second general system for the recognition of professional education and training to supplement Directive
89/48/EEC (OJ  1992 L 209, p. 25).
Operative part
The Court:
1.      Declares that the Hellenic Republic,
–        by failing to recognise the opticians’ diplomas granted by the competent Italian authorities following training given under
an agreement pursuant to which training given in Greece by a private body is homologated by those authorities;
–        by making consideration of applications for recognition of Italian opticians’ diplomas subject to the provision, by the Italian
authorities, of the answers to five questions previously sent to them by the Greek authorities; and
–        by allowing applicants for recognition of Italian opticians’ diplomas, who applied before the entry into force of Law 2916/2001
on the structure of university or similar education and the regulation of questions on the technological sector of that education,
no choice between an adaptation period and an aptitude test,
has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 3, the third subparagraph of Article 4(1)(b) and Article 12 of Council
Directive 92/51/EEC of 18 June 1992 on a second general system for the recognition of professional education and training
to supplement Directive 89/48/EEC, as amended by Directive 2001/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May
2001;
2.
Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.