CELEX: 51988PC0710
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-25
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE Amending Directive 77/452/EEC 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 the right of establishment and freedom to provide services, and Directive 77/453/CEE concerning the coordination of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in respect of the activities of nurses responsible for general care (submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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                                                   COM(88 ) 710 final - SYN 112
                                                   Brussels, 25 November 1988
                                Amended proposal for a
                                  COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
       Amending Directive 77/ 452/EEC 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 the right of establishment and freedom to provide
         services , and Directive 77/ 453/CEE concerning the coordination
                    of provisions laid down by law , regulation
                    or administrative action in respect of the
                activities of nurses responsible for general care
                           ( submitted by the Commission
                   to the Council pursuant to the third paragraph
                        of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty )
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 Explanatory memorandum
 Explanatory memorandum                                               C     /t* j
 On 29 December 1987 the Commission presented to the Council a proposal for a
 Directive ( 1 ) amending Directives 77/452 /EEC and 77/453 /EEC concern ing nurses ;
 the main objective was to establish the ratio of theoretical instruction at
 one third and that of clinical instruction at one half of the minimum total
 training for nursing laid down by Directive 77/ 453/ EEC .        It was based on
 Article 49 , 57 and 66 of the EEC Treaty .
 The European Parliament stated its views at a first reading in the context of
 the cooperation procedure on 8 July 1988 ( 2 ) and the Economic and Social
 Committee delivered its opinion on 24 March 1988 ( 3 ) .
This amended proposal for a Directive follows up the statement of views and
 opinion .
1 . The Commission is amending its proposal as follows :
      in the first citation it is proposed to no longer refer just to Article 57
      ( alongside Articles 49 and 66 ) of the EEC Treaty ; now that this Article has
      been amended by the Single Act , it is proposed to refer expressly to the
      provisions of the said Article 57 that are applicable in this case , that
      is , paragraph 1 and the third sentence of paragraph 2 . These further
      details concerning the legal basis of the proposal are intended to show
      clearly that the proposal is subject to the majority voting procedure in
      the Council ( not unanimity ) and the cooperation procedure in Parliament . As
      mentioned in its accompanying explanatory memorandum , the Commission shares
      Parliament 's view that none of the provisions in the proposal involve in a
      Member State " amendment of the existing principles laid down by law
      governing the professions with respect to training and conditions of access
      for natural persons ", a condition imposed by the second sentence of Article
      57 ( 2 ) of the EEC Treaty , as amended by the Single Act , which requires
      unanimi ty •
2 . The Commission did not , however , consider it advisable to include in the
     directives on nurses or in other sectoral directives a provision stating
      expressly that the directives apply      to male and female members of the
      profession without distinction .
      In the Commission 's view such a clarification is pointless , since it goes
     without saying that these directives apply without distinction to all
     members of the professions , men and women , and as far as it is aware this
     has never caused difficulties in the Member States .
      It   is true  that some   language   versions of the Directives on " nurses
     responsible for general care " use the feminine term to refer to the
     profession , some the masculine term and some both masculine and feminine
      terms .
     These are the conventional terms used to describe the profession in the
     languages in question .
( 1 ) OJ C 20 of 26 January 1988 , p.10 .
( 2 ) OJ C 235 of 12 September 1988 , p. 68 .
( 3 ) 0J C 134 of 24 May 1988 , p. 29 .
 ---pagebreak--- INITIAL PROPOSAL                          AMENDED PROPOSAL
Title                                     unchanged
First  visa
Having regard to the Treaty               Having regard to the Treaty
establishing the European Economic        establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular             Community , and in particular
Article 49 , 57 and 66 thereof ,          Article 49 , Article 57 ( 1 ), the
                                          third sentence of Article 57 ( 2 ),
                                          and Article 66 thereof ,
Remainder of the preamble , recitals and Articles 1 to 5 unchanged