TITLE V

ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION AND RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS CITIZENS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Central online access to information
Article 57
1
Member States shall ensure that the following information is available online through the points of single contact, referred to in Article 6 of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of
12 December 2006
on services in the internal market
, and regularly updated:
a
a list of all regulated professions in the Member State including contact details of the competent authorities for each regulated profession and the assistance centres referred to in Article 57b;
b
a list of the professions for which a European Professional Card is available, the functioning of that Card, including all related fees to be paid by professionals, and the competent authorities for issuing that Card;
c
a list of all professions for which the Member State applies Article 7(4) under national laws, regulations and administrative provisions;
d
a list of regulated education and training, and training with a special structure, referred to in point (c)(ii) of Article 11;
e
the requirements and procedures referred to in Articles 7, 50, 51 and 53 for the professions regulated in the Member State, including all related fees to be paid by citizens and documents to be submitted by citizens to competent authorities;
f
details on how to appeal, under national laws, regulations and administrative provisions, decisions of competent authorities adopted under this Directive.
2
Member States shall ensure that the information referred to in paragraph 1 is provided in a clear and comprehensive way for users, that it is easily accessible remotely and by electronic means and that it is kept up to date.
3
Member States shall ensure that any request for information addressed to the point of single contact is replied to as soon as possible.
4
Member States and the Commission shall take accompanying measures in order to encourage points of single contact to make the information provided for in paragraph 1 available in other official languages of the Union. This shall not affect the legislation of Member States on the use of languages in their territory.
5
Member States shall cooperate with each other and the Commission for the purpose of implementing paragraphs 1, 2 and 4.
OJ L 376, 27.12.2006, p. 36 .
Substituted by Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 amending Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (‘the IMI Regulation’) (Text with EEA relevance).