CELEX: 22019D0206
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 94/2017 of 5 May 2017 amending Annex VII (Recognition of professional qualifications) and Annex X (Services in general) to the EEA Agreement [2019/206]

7.2.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 36/52
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 94/2017
         of 5 May 2017
         amending Annex VII (Recognition of professional qualifications) and Annex X (Services in general) to the EEA Agreement [2019/206]
         THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
         Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 amending Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (‘the IMI Regulation’) (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Commission Regulation (EU) No 213/2011 (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement, added specialist medical training in medical oncology and in medical genetics to the list of titles of training courses in specialised medicine in Annex V to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (3), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and should therefore be adapted to reflect the titles of the relevant training courses in the EFTA States.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annexes VII and X to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            In point 1 (Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex VII to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        (1)
                     
                     
                        The following indent is added:
                        
                                    ‘—
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32013 L 0055: Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 132).’
                                 
                              
                  
                        (2)
                     
                     
                        Point (C) is deleted.
                     
                  
                        (3)
                     
                     
                        Points (A), (B), (D) and (E) are renumbered (B), (D), (E) and (F), respectively.
                     
                  
                        (4)
                     
                     
                        The following points are added:
                        
                                    ‘(A)
                                 
                                 
                                    In Article 3(1)(m), the words “and of the EFTA Court, in accordance with the EEA Agreement” shall be added after the words “Court of Justice of the European Union”.
                                    (…)
                                 
                              
                                    (C)
                                 
                                 
                                    In Article 21a(4), the following subparagraph shall be added:
                                    “Where the laws, regulations and administrative provisions notified by an EFTA State pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article are in conformity with the conditions set out in this Chapter, the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall issue a recommendation to amend Annex VII to the EEA Agreement to update the titles adopted by the EFTA States for evidence of formal qualifications and, where appropriate, the body which issues the evidence of formal qualifications, the certificate which accompanies it and the corresponding professional title. The EEA Joint Committee shall take recommendations issued by the EFTA Surveillance Authority into account when amending Annex VII to the EEA Agreement.”’
                                 
                              
                  
                        (5)
                     
                     
                        In point (E)(a)(iii), the following table is added:
                        
                                    ‘Country
                                 
                                 
                                    Medical oncology
                                    Minimum period of training:
                                    5 years
                                 
                                 
                                    Medical genetics
                                    Minimum period of training:
                                    4 years
                                 
                              
                                    Title
                                 
                                 
                                    Title
                                 
                              
                                    Ísland
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                    Erfðalæknisfræði
                                 
                              
                                    Liechtenstein
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                              
                                    Norge
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                    Medisinsk genetikk’
                                 
                              
                  
         
            Article 2
            The following indent is added in point 3 (Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex X to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘—
                     
                     
                        
                           32013 L 0055: Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 132).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 3
            The text of Directive 2013/55/EU in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.
         
         
            Article 4
            This Decision shall enter into force on 6 May 2017, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).
         
         
            Article 5
            This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 5 May 2017.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 132.
         
            (2)  OJ L 59, 4.3.2011, p. 4.
         
            (3)  OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 22.
         
            (*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.