Keywords
Summary

Keywords

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Freedom of movement for persons - Freedom of establishment - Freedom to provide services - Practitioners of dentistry - Recognition of diplomas and qualifications - Directive 78/686/EEC - Scope - Qualification testifying to training acquired in a non-member State - Excluded - Recognition of equivalence of qualification by one of the Member States - No effect

(Council Directives 78/686, Art. 7, and 78/687, Art. 1(4))

Summary

Article 7 of Directive 78/686/EEC concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications of practitioners of dentistry, including measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services, does not require Member States to recognize diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications which do not testify to dental training acquired in one of the Member States of the Community.

The mutual recognition of qualifications in dentistry awarded by the Member States, for which provision is made in Directive 78/686, is based on the guarantees provided by the application of minimum criteria for training imposed by Directive 78/687. In relations with non-member States, such coordination of legislation on training can be established only by agreements concluded between the States concerned. Thus although, by virtue of Article 1(4) of Directive 78/687/EEC, Member States remain free, in accordance with their own rules in respect of their own territory, to authorize holders of qualifications obtained in non-Community States to take up and pursue the activities of a dental practitioner, recognition by one Member State of qualifications awarded by non-member States does not bind the other Member States.