(18)There is a need to simplify the rules allowing access to a number of industrial, commercial and craft activities, in Member States where those professions are regulated, in so far as those activities have been pursued for a reasonable and sufficiently recent period of time in another Member State, while maintaining for those activities a system of automatic recognition based on professional experience.
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New version applies from 24/05/2016.
47 provisions change.
Later versions: 01/12/2017, 15/04/2019, 24/04/2020, 10/12/2021, 09/10/2023, 03/03/2024, 20/06/2024, 10/07/2025, 29/10/2025.
Recital 18 changes in this version: compare with the current text.