Communication — Notification of Awarding Bodies for Qualifications of Nurses Responsible for General Care and MidwivesText with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Poland, educational institution, midwife, nursing staff, recognition of diplomas

C 22/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

27.1.2005

Communication — Notification of Awarding Bodies for Qualifications of Nurses Responsible for
General Care and Midwives

(2005/C 22/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Council Directive 77/452/EEC of 27 June 1977 concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates
and other evidence of the formal qualifications of nurses responsible for general care, including measures
to facilitate the effective exercise of this right of establishment and freedom to provide services and Council
Directive 80/154/EEC of 21 January 1980 concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and
other evidence of formal qualifications in midwifery and including measures to facilitate the effective exer-
cise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services as amended recently by Directive
2001/19/EC and, in particular, Article 18(a) of Directive 77/452/EEC and 19(a) of Directive 80/154/EEC
provide, provides that Member States shall notify the Commission of the laws, regulations or administrative
provisions they adopt as regards the award of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifica-
tions in the field covered by this Directive. The Commission shall publish an appropriate notice in the Offi-
cial Journal of the European Union, listing the names adopted by the Member States for the training qualifica-
tions concerned and, where applicable, for the corresponding professional title.

The Republic of Poland has notified amendments to the awarding bodies in the list of titles of diplomas,
certificates and other evidence of formal qualification in nursing (general care) and of diplomas, certificates
and other evidence of formal qualification in midwifery for that Member State.

The Annex of Directive 77/452/EEC as amended by Directive 2001/19/EC and most recently by Annex II
of the Act Concerning the Conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and the Adjustments to the Treaties on which the
European Union is Founded is hereby amended as follows:

(1) under awarding body, the entry for the Republic of Poland should read:

‘instytucja prowadząca kształcenie na poziomie wyższym uznana przez właściwe władze’

(Higher educational institution recognized by the competent authorities).

The Annex of Directive 80/154/EEC as amended by Directive 2001/19/EC and most recently by Annex II
of the Act Concerning the Conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and the Adjustments to the Treaties on which the
European Union is Founded is hereby amended as follows:

(2) under awarding body, the entry for the Republic of Poland should read:

‘instytucja prowadząca kształcenie na poziomie wyższym uznana przez właściwe władze’

(Higher educational institution recognized by the competent authorities).