{"id":1582,"date":"2011-11-20T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2011-11-20T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T13:26:26","slug":"public-conference-on-the-modernisation-of-the-professional-qualifications-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"Public Conference on the Modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 November 2011, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission<\/a>\u00a0held a<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/internal_market\/qualifications\/conferences\/20111107-modernisation_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Conference on the Modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive<\/a>, in Brussels, in order to take stock of the various positions in advance of the Commission\u2019s proposal in December which seeks to meet the objectives of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/internal_market\/smact\/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Single Market Act<\/a>. The conference, which was organised by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/internal_market\/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DG Internal Market and Services<\/a>, was attended by key stakeholders, national governments and national competent authorities, and featured a speech by Commissioner Barnier. This high level conference highlighted, among other things, the added value of automatic recognition and recognized the need to strengthen and improve the minimum requirements. In order to take advantage of this opportunity, the EFN and six other European sectoral professions released a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.efn.eu\/version1\/EN\/documents\/JointStatementoftheEuropeanSectoralProfessionsontheModernisationoftheDirective36.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint statement<\/a>\u00a0stressing the need to preserve the quality and integrity of qualifications. The sectoral professions also attended a brief informal meeting with Commissioner Barnier, marking the beginning of formal negotiations on the modernisation of DIR36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 November 2011, the\u00a0European Commission\u00a0held aPublic Conference on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5098,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=5098","url_meta":{"origin":1582,"position":0},"title":"Modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive: safe mobility","author":"efn efn","date":"February 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The European Commission DG Internal Market organised a Conference with Commissioner Barnier on the modernisation of the professional qualifications Directive with a view to provide an opportunity to discuss the changes introduced by the modernisation process, namely: the European Professional Card; the Alert Mechanism and knowledge of languages; the recognition\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Lobby Insights&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Lobby Insights","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=40"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Assembly21.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Assembly21.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Assembly21.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Assembly21.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4444,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=4444","url_meta":{"origin":1582,"position":1},"title":"Commissioner Barnier welcomes the trilogue agreement on the modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive","author":"efn efn","date":"July 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cI congratulate the European Parliament and the Council on having reached agreement today on one of the priorities of the Single Market Act I. 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