CELEX: 51980PC0728
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Date: 1980-11-17
Title: Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 80/154/EEC concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in midwifery and including measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services, to take account of the accession of Greece to the European Communities (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   COM(80)728 final
                                                  Brussels , 17 November 1980
                    Proposal for a Council Directive
amending Directive 80/ 154 / EEC concerning the mutual recognition of
diplomas , certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications
in midwifery and including measures to facilitate the effective
exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide ser­
vices , to take account of the accession of Greece to the European
                              Communities
           ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(80 ) 728 final
 ---pagebreak---                                  EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
  General aim
         This proposal for a Directive introduces the necessary teohnical
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  amendments to Council Directive 80/154 /EEC of 21 January I98O concerning
  the mutual recognition of diplomas , certificates and other evidence of ■ -
  formal qualifications in midwifery and including measures to facilitate
  the effective exercise of the right of establishment
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                                                         and freedom
                                                                  % *
                                                                      to
  provide services , to enable the Direotive to be similarly applied by
  Greeoe and the other Member States .
   s        1 • -
Article   I
         Since the scope of the abovementioned Council Direotive 80/154 /EEC
  is primarily defined by reference to the activities performed in each
  Member State under a given professional title , it is necessary to specify
  the appropriate professional title corresponding to that listed in
  respeot of the other Member States in the case of Greece and make the
  necessary addition to Article I of Council Direotive 80/154/EEC . .
Article   2 "          .
         Counoil Directive 80/154/EEC ( see Article 2) provides that *
  recognition of diplomas , certificates and other evidence of formal
  qualifications in midwifery awarded to nationals of Member States by the
  other Member States is subject to two conditions : they must meet
  certain minimum criteria, and these criteria must be stipulated in the
  Directive .
                                                *
         To facilitate the recognition by the other Member States of Greek
  certificates in midwifery f±nt meet the stipulated ndnimuia criteria ,
. the titles of certifioVtses iasued ori completion of formal training in
  Greece must be added to Article 3 «
 ---pagebreak---          PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING
              DIRECTIVE 80 / 1 54 / EEC CONCERNING
THE MUTUAL RECOGNITION OP DIPLOMAS , CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
EVIDENCE OF FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS IN MIDWIFERY AND INCLUDING
MEASURES TO FACILITATE THE EFFECTIVE EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT
OF ESTABLISHMENT AND FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES' TO TAKE '
ACCOUNT OF THE ACCESSION OF GREECE TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
 ---pagebreak--- THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece , and in particular
Article 146 thereof ;
                                                        1
Whereas Council Directive 80/ 154/ EEC                     was adopted after signature of
                                              ♦                 '   ' *
the Treaty concerning the accession of Greece to the European Communities
Whereas , in view of Greece 's accession , certain amendments to the above-
mentioned Directive are required to ensure that it is applied similarly
by Greece and the other Member States ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :                                                    V
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                                                Article 1
Directive 80/ 154/ EEC is hereby amended as follows :
1 . The following is added to Article 1 :
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  OJ L 33 , 11.2.1980, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- 2.           The following is added to Article 3 :
" J.   in Greece :                                         ,
       the            | ioc'o:     awarded "by the higher school for midwives
       and, authenticated by the Ministry of Social Services ,
   or the nxvy.Co <£vcjt£p«c cxo\?k axcXexGv tfyeCa^KaC xoi.vuvi.x7jS
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       issued by the KATES (hi~her technioal and vocational training centres )".
                                        Article 2
             The Member States shall adopt the measures necessary to comply
with this Directive wi'. : v'n the time limit laid down in Article 20 ( 1 ) of
Directive oO^SA / CTC ao'-i shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof .
                                        Article 3
              This Dir' ■: J ; ve is addressed to the Member States .
                                             Done at Brussels ,
                                             For the Counoil
                                             The President