While maintaining, for the freedom of establishment, the principles and safeguards underlying the different systems for recognition in force, the rules of such systems should be improved in the light of experience. Moreover, the relevant directives have been amended on several occasions, and their provisions should be reorganised and rationalised by standardising the principles applicable. It is therefore necessary to replace Council Directives 89/48/EEC ( 5 ) and 92/51/EEC ( 6 ), as well as Directive 1999/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 7 ) on the general system for the recognition of professional qualifications, and Council Directives 77/452/EEC ( 8 ), 77/453/EEC ( 9 ), 78/686/EEC ( 10 ), 78/687/EEC ( 11 ), 78/1026/EEC ( 12 ), 78/1027/EEC ( 13 ), 80/154/EEC ( 14 ), 80/155/EEC ( 15 ), 85/384/EEC ( 16 ), 85/432/EEC ( 17 ), 85/433/EEC ( 18 ) and 93/16/EEC ( 19 ) concerning the professions of nurse responsible for general care, dental practitioner, veterinary surgeon, midwife, architect, pharmacist and doctor, by combining them in a single text.
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New version applies from 24/03/2011.
48 provisions change.
Later versions: 01/08/2012, 01/07/2013, 17/01/2014, 24/05/2016, 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 9 changes in this version: compare with the current text.