IN QUESTION ACCORDING TO WHICH , WHEN ACCESS TO CERTAIN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN A MEMBER STATE IS MADE SUBJECT TO THE POSSESSION OF GIVEN TRADE QUALIFICATIONS , THAT MEMBER STATE MUST RECOGNIZE AS A SUFFICIENT PROOF OF THOSE QUALIFICATIONS THE ACTUAL PRACTICE IN ANOTHER MEMBER STATE OF THE ACTIVITY IN QUESTION .
6THE PLAINTIFF TAKES THE VIEW THAT DIRECTIVE NO 64/427 OUGHT TO HAVE REQUIRED THE NETHERLANDS AUTHORITIES TO GRANT HIM THE AUTHORIZATION FOR WHICH HE HAD APPLIED .
7TO ENABLE IT TO GIVE JUDGMENT IN THIS MATTER THE COLLEGE VAN BEROEP VOOR HET BEDRIJFSLEVEN HAS SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING QUESTION :
' ' MUST DIRECTIVE NO 64/427/EEC OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF 7 JULY 1964 BE INTERPRETED AS MEANING THAT THE EXPRESSION ' BENEFICIARIES ' AS REFERRED TO AND AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 1 ( 1 ) OF THE DIRECTIVE ALSO INCLUDES PERSONS WHO POSSESS AND HAVE ALWAYS POSSESSED SOLELY THE NATIONALITY OF THE HOST MEMBER STATE?
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8THE DEFINITION OF THE PERSONS TO WHOM DIRECTIVE NO 64/427 APPLIES DEPENDS , FIRST , ON THE ACTUAL AIM OF THAT DIRECTIVE AND , SECONDLY , ON THE PROVISIONS WHICH FORM ITS BASIS AND ITS FRAMEWORK , NAMELY THE GENERAL PROGRAMMES FOR THE ABOLITION OF RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND FREEDOM OF ESTABLISHMENT OF 18 DECEMBER 1961 ( OFFICIAL JOURNAL , ENGLISH SPECIAL EDITION , SECOND SERIES , IX , PP . 3 AND 7 RESPECTIVELY ) AS WELL AS ON THE RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY .
9DIRECTIVE NO 64/427 IS INTENDED TO FACILITATE THE REALIZATION OF FREEDOM OF ESTABLISHMENT AND OF FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN A LARGE GROUP OF TRADE ACTIVITIES RELATING TO INDUSTRY AND SMALL CRAFT INDUSTRIES , PENDING THE HARMONIZATION OF THE CONDITIONS FOR ACCESS TO THE TRADES IN QUESTION IN THE VARIOUS MEMBER STATES , WHICH IS AN INDISPENSABLE PRECONDITION FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM IN THIS SPHERE .
10MORE PARTICULARLY THAT DIRECTIVE TAKES ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFICULTIES RESULTING FROM THE FACT THAT , IN CERTAIN MEMBER STATES , CERTAIN OF THE ACTIVITIES IN QUESTION MAY BE FREELY TAKEN UP AND PURSUED , WHILST OTHER MEMBER STATES APPLY MORE OR LESS STRICT CONDITIONS INVOLVING THE POSSESSION OF SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR ADMISSION TO CERTAIN TRADES .
11WITH A VIEW TO RESOLVING THE PROBLEMS CREATED BY THIS DISPARITY , ARTICLE 3 OF THE DIRECTIVE PROVIDES THAT , WHERE , IN A MEMBER STATE , THE TAKING UP OR PURSUIT OF ANY ACTIVITY REFERRED TO IN THE DIRECTIVE IS DEPENDENT ON THE POSSESSION OF CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS , ' ' THAT MEMBER STATE SHALL ACCEPT AS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF SUCH KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY THE FACT THAT THE ACTIVITY IN QUESTION HAS BEEN PURSUED IN ANOTHER MEMBER STATE ' ' .
12THAT ARTICLE FURTHER STATES WHAT IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD BY ' ' PURSUING ' ' AN ACTIVITY , IN PARTICULAR BY FIXING MINIMUM PERIODS DURING WHICH IT MUST HAVE BEEN PRACTISED .
13AS A COUNTERPART , ARTICLE 5 OF THE SAME DIRECTIVE DEALING WITH MEMBER