Order — ECLI:EU:C:2003:570
Date: 2003-10-17
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Right of establishment;Freedom to provide services;Free movement of workers
Concepts: The various activities
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Germany

Summary of the Order 
Freedom of movement for persons — Freedom of establishment — Freedom to provide 
services — Practitioners of dentistry — Coordination of national provisions — Direc­
tive 78/687 — National rule allowing doctors who have not completed the training 
required by the directive to practice as dental practitioners — Not permissible — Title 
under which these activities are carried out — Not relevant 
(Council Directive 78/687, Art. 1(1» 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-35/02 
Directive 78/687 concerning the coor­
dination of provisions laid down by law, 
regulation or administrative action in 
respect of the activities of dental practi­
tioners, as amended by the Act concerning 
the conditions of accession of the Republic 
of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the 
Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to 
the Treaties on which the European Union 
is founded, properly construed, precludes a 
national rule containing a general auth­
orisation for doctors who have not com­
pleted the training required by Article 1 of 
that directive to carry out the activities of a 
dental practitioner, irrespective of the title 
under which those activities are carried out. 
(see para. 38, operative part) 
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