{"id":414375,"date":"2024-12-16T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/12\/16\/qualifiche-professionali-procedura-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T20:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:04:42","slug":"professional-qualifications-infringement-procedure-against-italy-and-21-other-eu-countries-for-excessive-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/12\/16\/professional-qualifications-infringement-procedure-against-italy-and-21-other-eu-countries-for-excessive-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional qualifications: Infringement procedure against Italy (and 21 other EU countries) for excessive checks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Italy is lagging on\u00a0professional qualifications.<\/strong> The European Commission launched infringement proceedings over checks upon arrival on educational qualifications, contrary to an EU law —\u00a0Directive of 2005<\/a>\u00a0—\u00a0that it disregards after 20 years. It’s not just Italy that has landed in Brussels’ crosshairs: three-quarters of EU member states share the same infraction as Italy.<\/p>\n

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden all have in\u00a0common with Italy\u00a0a national legislation that is wrong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to legal requirements, some professional categories — like healthcare (doctors and nurses) — are subject to preventive checks. For professions that have implications for public health and safety, member states may verify qualifications before allowing people to offer services. However, like\u00a0other EU states, Italy has “focused this enforcement action on three areas of particular importance, i.e. construction, transport, and business services,<\/strong>”\u00a0the EU executive notes.<\/p>\n

The choice is contrary to EU rules as it is an “unjustified”<\/strong>\u00a0system that restricts the provision of\u00a0services and free movement of workers. It goes against the Directive on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications, designed to simplify the temporary and occasional provision of services by professionals in different member states. Now, there are two months to give an explanation, which will have to be convincing because, otherwise, the procedure will proceed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For Italy, the initiation of the procedure\u00a0confirms its long-standing issues. On professional qualifications,\u00a0the country excluded\u00a0skilled Croatian workers during the latest enlargement of the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2005 Directive applied restrictively to construction, transportation, and business services. For Brussels, an “unjustified” system. Two months to respond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":253307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26180,25746,28363,30019],"class_list":["post-414375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-qualifiche-professionali-en","tag-professions-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414536,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414375\/revisions\/414536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}