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Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition ofprofessional qualifications provides for a system of recognition of professional experience and promotes automatic recognition of professional experience across theEuropean Union (EU). It covers theEuropean Economic Area and has been amended several times.[1]
The qualifications of some professions, such as doctors and architects, have been extensively harmonised; in addition, it offers more general guidelines for other professions, that have not been specifically regulated this directive, or other specific rules. Any form of work that would normally be restricted in a member state to people who had gained a professional qualification in that member state are also open to nationals of the EU (and member states of the European Economic Area) who have gained a similar professional qualification in another member state.[2]
Professions regulated in most or all EU states include: