The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations further amend the European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) Regulations 1996 (SI 1996/2374 as amended by SI 1999/67, “the principal Regulations”) which give effect in the United Kingdom to Council Directive 92/51/EEC (“the principal Directive”).

Regulations 2(4) and 2(5) with Schedules 2 and 3 give effect in the United Kingdom to Commission Directive 2000/5/EC of 25th February 2000 (O.J. No. L54, 26.2.2000 p. 42) which amends Annexes C and D to the principal Directive. Regulation 2(4) with Schedule 2 substitutes a new section in Part I of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations relating to paramedical and childcare training courses in Austria. Regulation 2(5) with Schedule 3 substitutes a new Part II of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations which relates to courses referable to the practice of a profession in the United Kingdom.

Regulation 2(3) substitutes a new Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations which sets out (in Part I) professions regulated in the United Kingdom by law or public authority and in Part II, professions regulated by professional associations. The changes are:

• in Part I, the addition of Assistant Instructor (Motor Bicycles), Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland Approved Driving Instructor, Certified Instructor (Motor Bicycles) and State Registered Paramedic and the change in the designated authority for Licensed Cab Driver (London) from the Assistant Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis to Transport for London;

• in Part II, the addition of Licentiate of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Technical Member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Regulation 2(2) amends Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations; this Schedule lists directives establishing arrangements for mutual recognition of qualifications in specific professions and those professions are outside the scope of the principal Regulations.