WRITTEN QUESTION P-3035/01 by José Pomés Ruiz (PPE-DE) to the Commission. European degrees in psychomotricity.
Date: 2001-10-23
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: France, access to information, competence of the Member States, higher education, paramedical training, psychology, recognition of diplomas

6.6.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 134 E/181

Officials

Temporary staff

Auxiliary staff

Total

A

L/A

Country

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

Other countries

A

13

24
(1)

33
(1)

10

32

4

23

10

11

14

16

35

L/A

60

56

30

7

60

1

30

1

58

58

53

51

B

4

15

17

2

37

13

3

7

9

6

12

1

C

88

94

97

42

206

4

37

3

90

58

51

60

1

D

3

12

4

44

2

4

4

3

Total

300
(2)

629

206

1238

125

(1)
(2)

+ Non-cat.
+ 2 Non-cat.

2

3

6

2

5

2

4

2

1

2

1

4

168

201
(1)

181
(1)

61

379

11

107

17

170

139

126

161

2

2498
(2)

B

1

2

3

1

C

D

Total

A

L/A

B

C

D

Total

1

3

5

7

2

8

2

4

2

2

2

1

4

0

Grand
total

171

206
(1)

188
(1)

63

387

13

111

19

172

141

127

165

2

%

6,68

8,05

7,35

2,46

15,13

0,51

4,34

0,74

6,72

5,51

4,96

6,45

0,08

43

0

16

1

0

60

2558
(2)

± 100 %

(2002/C 134 E/185)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3035/01

by José Pomés Ruiz (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(23 October 2001)

Subject: European degrees in psychomotricity

On 17 April 1986, the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA) signed an agreement with the Pau
Institute of Psychomotricity (IPP), whereby students trained at the latter obtained the French State Diploma
in Psychomotricity from the UPPA.

The Colegio Carlos III of Pamploma (Spain) signed an agreement with the IPP and then with the UPPA on
3 October 1990, whereby students might be awarded a university degree (diplomatura)
in psycho-
motricity, within the framework of a European diploma conferred and guaranteed by the UPPA and the
IPP.

At the end of their course of studies, the Spanish students received a certificate as an ‘attestation’
(certificate) and not a ‘diplomatura’ (degree), as a result of which they want to take the Colegio Carlos III to
court, a demand which is seen as not being in the interests of the College. The UPPA and the IPP have
washed their hands of the matter.

What is the Commission’s opinion of the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour’s action, given the
existence of the agreement signed between the two institutions and of Directives 89/48/EEC (1) and
92/51/EEC (2) which envisage a general system for the mutual recognition of degrees in the Member States?

(1) OJ L 19, 24.1.1989, p. 16.
(2) OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 25.

C 134 E/182

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

6.6.2002

Answer given by Mrs Reding on behalf of the Commission

(21 November 2001)

There are two types of procedure for recognition of qualifications with different objectives: the academic
recognition procedure and the professional recognition procedure. The former concerns the recognition by
a Member State of academic qualifications obtained in another Member State for allowing a person to
undertake further studies. It essentially is governed by national law or agreements between Member States.

Professional recognition aims to facilitate the free movement of workers and the self-employed within the
Community. It concerns the recognition of the qualifications required for access to the professions in
different Member States and is governed by Community law (1). The purpose of this procedure is to allow
persons who are fully qualified to practice a given profession in a Member State to have access to the same
profession in another Member State. It is a pre-condition for the application of the directives that the
migrant is fully qualified to exercise the profession in the Member State of origin (the Member State in
which the qualification has been awarded).

The directives cited in the written question are therefore not applicable in the present case.

The written question does not refer to a state measure but to an agreement between universities. The
subject of the question falls outside Community competence and should be dealt with through the existing
means of redress at national level, on the basis of national law.

(1) Council Directive 89/48/EEC of 21 December 1988 on a general system for the recognition of higher-education
diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years’ duration, and
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.

(2002/C 134 E/186)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3036/01

by Franz Turchi (UEN) to the Council

(25 October 2001)

Subject: Murder of Afghan military commander Ahmed Shah Masood

The murder of the Afghan resistance military commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, was carried out by two
hired kamikaze killers, accredited as journalists from a fictional Arab television company ANI-TV (Arabic
News International), presented as a branch of the Islamic Obervation Centre based in London.

The two supposed journalists had two genuine EU passports, both issued in Belgium, the first issued in
Dilbeek and bearing the number EB616967 and the name Karim Rouzani, born in Oujda (Morocco) on
12 September 1963, and the second issued in Ixelles and bearing the number EB880773 and the name
Kacem Bakkali, born in Tangier (Morocco) on 22 October 1973.

Both passports are now known to have been stolen from the Belgian consular offices in Strasbourg
(France) and the Hague (Netherlands).

The letter of accreditation in the two kamikaze attackers’ possession bore the header and stamp of the
Islamic Observation Centre, whose director, Yasser Al Siri, is a charismatic leader of the Egyptian Jihad,
who was sentenced to death in his country for involvement in the attack on the Deputy Prime Minister in
1993 and suspected of organising the 1997 terrorist attack in Luxor, in which 58 tourists were killed.
Yasser Al Siri, who has applied for political refugee status in the United Kingdom, conducts his activities
from a bookshop in the Edgware Road district in London. Although he has no central office, nor any
premises or base of his own, he makes extremely effective use of new technologies to carry out his
indoctrination and cyberpropaganda activities at the internet address http://www. ummah. org.

Will the Council, and in particular the Belgian authorities, state what additional safety measures they
intend to take in the light of recent events and the new international situation?