Veterinary surgeon

THE EUROPEAN UNION THE ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR,

FAMILY, SOCIAL PROTECTION AND ELDERLY

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The European Social Fund

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Structural Instruments 2007 - 2013

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THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND

The Sectoral Operational Program Human Resources Development 2007 – 2013

Priority Axis 3 “INCREASING ADAPTABILITY OF WORKERS AND ENTERPRISES”

Key Area of Intervention 3.3 “Development of partnerships and encouraging initiatives for social

partners and civil society”

Project title: “The Network of Competent Authorities for Professional

Qualifications in Romania (IMI PQ NET Romania)”

Beneficiary: the Ministry of National Education

Contract no.: POSDRU/93/3.3/S/53132

ETS-ANC: Prof.univ.dr.ing. Sirbu Alexandrina

Date: June 29th, 2013

CERTIFICATION AND RECOGNITION

GUIDELINES FOR THE VETERINARY

SURGEON PROFESSION

Author:

Prof.univ.dr.ing. Sirbu Alexandrina

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Table of Contents

Introduction 3

I. Regulation status for the veterinary surgeon profession

in Romania and in seven other EU Member States

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II. Competence validation/certification procedures applied

by the competent authorities in the countries where the

veterinary surgeon profession is regulated

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III. Recognition processes for the qualifications achieved

in other Member States of the European Union

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IV. Practising of the veterinary surgeon profession in the

European Union

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Conclusions 51

Selective bibliography 53

Annexes:

1. Abbreviations 2. Regulation status for the veterinary surgeon profession in

Romania and in other Member States of the European Union 3. SOLVIT national centres for the studied EU Member States 4. Description of the profession regulated in Romania

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Introduction

One of the fundamental rights the EU (European Union) citizens

enjoy consists in the free movement of people throughout the

European Economic Area. The European citizens’ mobility can be

done both for lucrative and non-lucrative purposes. In certain cases,

they need to have access to constant education and training and to

practise their profession on the internal market. For this purpose,

standards have been adopted in order to facilitate the mutual

recognition of the professional qualifications among the Member

States.

As it is already known, one of the objectives set by the project

“The Network of Competent Authorities for Professional

Qualifications in Romania” is the creation and development of a

network at national level IMI NET for the professional

qualifications in Romania.1 For this purpose, as part of the said

project these Qualification Certification and Recognition Guidelines

have been elaborated for the veterinary surgeon profession. These

guidelines are meant to support the competent authorities in Romania

1 http://www.imipqnet.ro/ro/despre-proiect/

http://www.imipqnet.ro/ro/despre-proiect/



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in its efforts to standardize the certification and recognition processes

for the regulated veterinary surgeon profession. Moreover, these

guidelines provide information referring to the practices in other

seven EU Member States (Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark,

Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the Netherlands), for a better

orientation of all the people who have obtained qualifications in their

respective field of business in Romania and who want to practise the

veterinary surgeon profession in any of the EU Member States

shown in these guidelines. Therefore, these guidelines are designed

for the competent authorities, the social partners and the individuals

who are interested in the certification and recognition of the

veterinary surgeon profession in the seven EU Member States,

compared to Romania.

The methodology for the application of the of the Qualification

Certification and Recognition Guidelines for the veterinary surgeon

profession consisted in the research of the documents (European

legislation, national regulations, types of qualification titles, etc.) for

the profession in question in each individual country, the processing

of the information – statistics in the internal market information

system (IMI) and comparative studies at EU level for that respective

field, including research in the field by collecting information from



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the Romanian Veterinary Medical Chamber (CMVRO). Starting

from the standard procedures for validation and certification of the

competences corresponding to the regulated professions and for

qualification recognition, which have been developed as part of the

project2, these guidelines have been structured by also taking into

account the results of the workshop rounds attended by the IMI PQ

NET target group members.

I. Regulation status for the veterinary surgeon

profession in Romania and in seven other EU Member

States

The veterinary surgeon is regulated in 27 Member States of

the European Economic Area (EEA), i.e.: Denmark, Iceland,

Finland, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain, the Czech

Republic, Sweden, Slovenia, Italy, Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Great

Britain, Luxembourg, Austria, Norway, Liechtenstein, Portugal,

Slovakia, Latvia, Malta, France, Hungary and Greece.3 As said

2 http://www.imipqnet.ro

3http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=regprofs&regprof

=veterinary%20surgeon&quid=1&mode=asc&maxRows=*#top

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before, seven EU states have been selected and for them the

regulation of the veterinary surgeon profession is compared to that in

Romania.

Table 1 indicates the name of the regulated profession in the

country of origin and the competent authorities corresponding to

each analyzed Member State.

Table 1. General information on the identification of the veterinary

surgeon profession in Romania and in other Member States of the

European Union

Member State

(MS) Profession name

in MS Competent Authority

(CA) Romania medic veterinar The Romanian Veterinary

Medical Chamber (CMVRO) www.cmvro.ro

Austria veterinary

surgeon The Federal Minister of Health

(Bundesminister für

Gesundheit) http://www.bmgf.gv.at/

The Czech

Republic veterinární lékaři The Chamber of Veterinary

Surgeons of Czech Republic (Komora veterinárních lékařů

Čr) http://www.vetkom.cz/

Denmark dyrlæge The Danish Veterinary and

Food Administration –

Ministry of Food, Agriculture

and Fisheries

(Fødevarestyrelse)

http://www.cmvro.ro/

http://www.bmgf.gv.at/

http://www.vetkom.cz/



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Member State

(MS) Profession name

in MS Competent Authority

(CA) www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk

Germany tierarzt The Veterinary Association -

Land Veterinary Chamber

(Tierärztekammer) Italy veterinario The Ministry of Health

(Ministero della Salute) http://www.salute.gov.it/

Great Britain veterinary

surgeon The Royal College of

Veterinary Surgeons http://www.rcvs.org.uk/home/

The Netherlands dierenarts The Ministry of Health,

Welfare and Sport (Ministerie

van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn

en Sport)

www.diergeneeskunderegister.

nl

The specific information referring to the certification of the

competences, the recognition of the professional qualification and

the practising of the veterinary surgeon profession in all of these

states may be obtained directly from the competent authorities in

each Member State (see Table 1) or through the national/unique

points of contact for the authorities managing the regulated

professions based on the principles laid down in Directive

2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the professional

http://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=regprof&id_regprof=8086


http://www.salute.gov.it/

http://www.rcvs.org.uk/home/

http://www.diergeneeskunderegister.nl/




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qualifications. The national points of contact4 are liable for the

provision of general information regarding the recognition of the

professional qualifications laid down in Directive 2005/36/EC, as

well as with reference to the national legislation regulating the

practising of these professions.

The veterinary surgeon profession is regulated per sectors in all

the Member States in question, the qualification level and the

methods for the recognition of the professional qualifications being

harmonized based on Directive 2005/36/EC of the European

Parliament and of the Council dated September 7th, 2005 regarding

the recognition of the professional qualifications, according to

Article 38. Moreover, in this field, the directive that also used to be

applied too prior to October 2007 is Directive 78/1026/EEC of the

Council, dated December 18th, 1978, regarding the mutual

recognition of diplomas, certificates and other official qualification

titles in veterinary medicine, including the actions meant to facilitate

the actual practising of the right to settle down and of the freedom to

provide services. Although the sectoral directive 78/1026/EEC, with

4 See http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/contact/national_contact_points_en.htm

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current amendments, was abrogated5, it is still a reference document

on the webpage of the competent authorities in several Member

States (Italy, the Czech Republic etc.).

At the moment in the studied European countries, this

profession is automatically recognized, meaning that each Member

State recognizes the veterinary surgeon qualifications allowing the

access to the professional activities and the practicing thereof, having

the same effect on its territory as the qualifications the state itself

issues do. The community regulation6 indicates the minimum

training level that is necessary for the automatic recognition of the

professional qualifications by identifying the titles in the educational

system in each EU Member State. The respective training titles have

to be issued by the competent authorities of the Member States and

should be accompanied by the indicated certificates – as applicable.

In Romania, the veterinary surgeon profession is a liberal and

independent profession with regulated automatic organization. It is

organized and functions based on the principle of autonomy within

the professional forum represented by the Romanian Veterinary

5 according to Article 62 in Directive 2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the

professional qualifications 6 see Directive 2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the professional

qualifications (Articles 17, 18, 19, 38).



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Medical Chamber. According to the Veterinary Surgeon Status7 the

following shall be defined:

a) veterinary surgeon – the Romanian or foreign person who

holds a veterinary surgeon degree issued by a higher education unit

in Romania or abroad and officially recognized in Romania by the

competent authority;

b) official veterinary surgeon – the veterinary surgeon

employed and remunerated by the state, appointed by the veterinary

authority in order to carry out public veterinary activities indicated

by it under the law;

c) free practice veterinary surgeon – the veterinary surgeon who

caries out free practice veterinary activities under the law.

The veterinary surgeon profession is practiced in Romania by

any person who is a Romanian citizen and who holds the veterinary

surgeon degree validated under the law, as well as by the citizens in

the Member States of the European Union, of the European

Economic Area and of Switzerland who hold veterinary surgeon

degrees, certificates or other documents certifying this qualification

laid down by the law and issued by an education unit in these states.

7 The veterinary surgeon status on October 24th, 2010 (issued by the the Romanian

Veterinary Medical Chamber; published in the Official Gazette no. 147 dated March

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The objectives of the veterinary surgeon profession are the

protection of the animal health and of the public health, the consumer

and environmental protection for the improvement of the livestock,

for the assurance of the population food safety, for the improvement

of the commercial relations and for the maintenance of the ecological

balance.

In Romania the veterinary surgeon profession has exclusiveness

in the following fields of competence:

a) animal health;

b) veterinary public health and hygiene of animal products and of

products of animal origin;

c) border inspection and veterinary controls;

d) veterinary laboratory supervision and diagnosis;

e) fodder hygiene control;

f) coordination of animal identification and registration;

g) ongoing veterinary training and education;

h) testing, registration and authorization of processes focused on the

manufacturing and trading of veterinary use products and of other

materials that might have an influence on the animal health status;

i) retail sale and use of biological products, special use anti-parasitic

and veterinary use medicines;



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j) veterinary consultancy and audit.

The veterinary surgeon may carry out professional activities in

collaboration with other professions in the following fields:

a) protection of public health and consumer protection;

b) animal growing and feeding;

c) animal selection, improvement and reproduction;

d) manufacturing of veterinary use products and of other

materials influencing the animal health;

e) fundamental and applicative animal genetics research;

f) protection of domestic animals and of wildlife;

g) industrialization and capitalization of animal products and of


h) environmental protection and pollution control;

i) medical-veterinary statistics;

j) marketing of veterinary use products, except for those

indicated in Article 4 letter i);

k) control of movement of animals, of animal products and of


l) medical-veterinary research;

m) animal nutrition;

n) medical-veterinary biotechnologies;



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o) medical-veterinary education.

In the practicing of the profession, the veterinary surgeon

applies, respects and is protected by the state laws as well as by the

provisions laid down in the Veterinary Surgeon Bylaws and in the

Medical and Veterinary Deontological Code approved by the

National Congress of Veterinary Surgeons, in compliance with the

law. The National Council of the Veterinary Surgeons Chamber may

attest – under this law – veterinary surgeons in various professional

profiles. Moreover, the National Council of the Veterinary Surgeons

Chamber makes proposals regarding the criteria for the professional

ranks to be achieved according to the legal standards in force, in:

a) veterinary medical care;

b) veterinary epidemiology;

c) laboratory supervision and diagnosis;

d) veterinary public health and hygiene of animal products and

of products of animal origin;

e) reproduction pathology.

The activities carried out through the medical-veterinary free

practice are: veterinary medical care, artificial inseminations, various

specialized services and sanitary-veterinary technical and legislative

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veterinary use medicines and of veterinary use devices and

instruments. The particular medical-veterinary services are part of

the national sanitary-veterinary unique system.

The veterinary surgeons with free practice rights may carry out

their activity independently both as self-employed and as legal

entities.

The legislative particularities referring to the recognition of the

professional qualification and the practising of the veterinary surgeon

profession in Romania are highlighted by the following documents:

• Law no. 160/1998 for the organization and practising of the

veterinary surgeon profession, republished on May 23rd

, 2005;

• Government Resolution no. 860/2004 regarding the recognition

of the veterinary surgeon qualification and the regulation of various

aspects regarding the practising of the veterinary surgeon profession;

• Resolution no. 79/2008 for the amendment and completion of

the Government Resolution no. 860/2004 regarding the recognition

of the veterinary surgeon qualification and the regulation of various

aspects regarding the practising of the veterinary surgeon profession;

• Government Resolution no. 1477/2004 for the approval of the

minimum mandatory criteria of authorization and accreditation for

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medicine, pharmacy, medical nurses, midwives, veterinary medicine,

architecture, as well as for the general practicing medical nurse

colleges for the basic training;

• Law no. 213/2010 for the amendment of Article 36 in the Law

no. 160/1998 regarding the organization and practising of the

veterinary surgeon profession;

• Government Resolution no. 890/2008 regarding the

qualification names and titles granted to the graduates of the higher

education being awarded the bachelor’s degree;

• Order no. 5289/2008 issued by the Ministry of Education,

Research and Youth with reference to the Degree Supplement;

• Order no. 5703/2011 issued by the Ministry of Education,

Research, Youth and Sport for the implementation of the National

Framework for the Higher Education Qualifications.

The legislation mentioned above and referring to the practising

of the veterinary surgeon profession is also available on the webpage

of the competent authority – the Romanian Veterinary Medical

Chamber (www.cmvro.ro). Pursuant to the Law no. 160/1998

amended in 2004 and republished in 2005, with current amendments,

the criteria for the qualification recognition and for the practising of

the veterinary surgeon profession are laid down for the Romanian

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citizens holding a veterinary surgeon degree validated according to

the law, as well as for the citizens of the Member States of the EU, of

the EEA and of Switzerland, who hold veterinary surgeon degrees,

certificates or other documents certifying this qualification as set out

by the law, documents issued by an education unit in these

states. Moreover, the veterinary surgeon profession in Romania may

also be practiced by the citizens of the Member States of the

European Union, of the European Economic Area and of

Switzerland, as long as they hold degrees, certificates or other

documents attesting the veterinary surgeon qualification and issued

by the veterinary higher education units in third party countries,

which are recognized in an EU Member State or which confirm this

qualification; these documents should be validated under the law.

The veterinary surgeons, Romanian citizens living abroad, as

well as veterinary surgeons who are citizens of the Member States of

the European Union, of the European Economic Area and Swiss

citizens who practice the veterinary surgeon profession in Romania

shall enjoy the same rights and obligations regarding the practising

hereof as the veterinary surgeons who are members in the Romanian

Veterinary Medical Chamber (CMVRO) do.



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Table 2 includes several pieces of information referring to the

harmonized national legislative framework, i.e. the status of

regulation of the veterinary surgeon profession in Romania and in

other studied Member States of the European Union.

Table 2. General information regarding the organization and

practising of the veterinary surgeon profession in Romania and in

other Member States of the European Union

Member State Specific National Legislation Romania Law no. 160/1998 for the organization and

practising of the veterinary surgeon

profession, republished Austria Regulation TGD-VO 2009 of the Federal

Ministry of Health regarding the recognition

and functioning of the sanitary-veterinary

services The Czech

Republic Law no. 166/1999 the Veterinary Law, with

current amendments Denmark Danish Law no. 433/2004 regarding the

veterinary surgeon, amended through the

Laws no. 401/2010 and 402/2010.

Minister’s Order no. 1176/2007 regarding the

access to the veterinary surgeon profession in

Denmark for the EU and EEA citizens and

for the citizens of a country having signed an

agreement with the EU regarding the

professional recognition, as amended by the

Minister’s Order no. 1328/2009.



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Member State Specific National Legislation Great Britain Veterinary Surgeon Act of 1966, with current

amendments (last revision: 2013) The Netherlands Law regarding the practising of the

veterinary surgeon profession 1990 (last

updated in 2013) (WUD)

Pursuant to Article 38 in Directive 2005/36/EC regarding the

recognition of the professional qualifications, the qualification level

for the veterinary surgeon in all of the eight Member States – i.e.

Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Great

Britain, the Netherlands and Romania – has to be consistent with a

training form consisting in total in at least five years of full-time

theoretical and practical studies at an university, a higher education

unit at a level recognized as being equivalent to or higher than an

university and which provides the proof that the person in question

achieved the results of the specific education8, adapted to the

scientific and technical progress. This training is consistent with

Level 6 pursuant to the European Qualification Framework (EQF).

Moreover, the updating of the academic curriculum for the

achievement of the professional competences cannot involve for any

8 see Annex V, pct. 5.4.1. in Directive 2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the

professional qualifications



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Member State an amendment of the existing legislative principles

regarding the natural persons’ training and access to the veterinary

surgeon profession within the European Economic Area. Regarding

the results of the education, the training for becoming a veterinarian

provides the guarantee that the person in question has achieved the

following knowledge and competences:

(a) he/she has to have good knowledge of the sciences used as the

basis for the veterinary activities;

(b) he/she has to have good knowledge of the structure and functions

of healthy animals, of their growing, reproduction, hygiene in

general, as well as of their feeding, including the technology used for

the manufacturing and preservation of food according to their needs;

(c) he/she has to have good knowledge of the field referring to the

animal behaviour and protection;

(d) he/she has to have good knowledge of the cases, of the nature of

performance, of the effects, of the diagnostic and treatment of the

animal diseases, whether they are treated individually or as a group;

among them, particular knowledge of the diseases that can be

transmitted to humans;

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(f) he/she has to have good knowledge of hygiene and of the

technology used for obtaining, manufacturing and sale of food for

animals or of animal food meant for humans;

(g) he/she has to have good knowledge of the acts having the power

of a law and of the administrative acts regarding the fields mentioned

above;

(h) the proper clinical and practical experience under the correct

supervision.

Annex 2 summarizes the regulation status for the veterinary

surgeon profession in the studied Member States. Directive


qualifications, with current amendments, as well as other regulations

amending Directive 78/1026/EEC regarding the mutual recognition

of degrees, certificates and other official qualification titles in

veterinary medicine, including the actions meant to facilitate the

actual practising of the right to settle down and of the freedom to

provide services (Directive 2006/100/EC, Directive 2001/19/EC etc.)

have simplified the procedure for updating the list of degrees that

might benefit from automatic recognition and have facilitated the

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of degrees, certificates and other titles, this procedure providing a

sufficient level of legal security.

The workers’ actual mobility for the practising of the veterinary

surgeon profession in the European Economic Area is difficult to be

quantified in a real system, but there are several statistics available at

European and national levels with reference to the number of

applications of the recognition of the professional qualifications or to

the number of decisions made for the automatic recognition at

sectoral level. If we take into account all the professions for which

applications were filed for the qualification recognition on the

internal market, we may observe that the veterinary surgeon

profession is one of the top 10 regulated professions9.

Out of the studied countries, the statistics regarding the workers’

geographical mobility on the internal market, whose professional

qualification as veterinary surgeons have been recognized, show that

the highest number of favourable decisions in the country of origin

was in Great Britain (32%) and Italy (11%).10

For the veterinary

surgeons who obtained the qualification title in Romania and who

requested the sectoral recognition for the practising of their

9http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=stat_ranking&b_s

ervices=false , last accessed on April 20th, 2013 10 http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=stat_ranking&b_services=false

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=stat_ranking&b_services=false

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professional activity in other Member States of the European Union,

the data are differentiated depending on the used source. According

to the data available at

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm,

328 decisions were made prior to 2012 for the recognition of the

professional qualifications in view of the applicants settling down in

EU Member States and 9 statements offered by other Member States

as host countries for the Romanian veterinary surgeons who wanted

to temporarily and occasionally provide services. Out of the 328

applications mentioned above, 307 decisions (corresponding to 94%

out of the total number) were favourable and most of the applications

were filed for the practising of the veterinary surgeon profession in

Great Britain, in France and in Italy.

According to the data provided by the Romanian Veterinary

Medical Chamber representatives, the competent authority in

Romania (CMVRO) received by April 2013 11 applications for the

recognition of the veterinary surgeon professional

qualifications for the practising of the profession in Romania,

and 730 veterinary surgeons in Romania received the

certificate of conformity in order to practice the veterinary

surgeon profession in the European Union.

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II. Competence validation/certification procedures

applied by the competent authorities in the countries

where the veterinary surgeon profession is regulated

The competence validation/certification process is the

process through which an accredited institution certifies that a person

has competences in a given field by issuing a document called a

certificate of professional competence. A certificate of professional

competence is not a study degree; it certifies that a person has a

certain level of expertise in a given field. The basic principles of the

professional competence certification process are the following:

The competence certification is an optional and not

mandatory process. However, certain institutional policies

might require the competence certification of its members as

a requirement for becoming part of that organization;

The assessment of the professional competences may be

done by the same organization that had certified the

competences or by another organization;

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The training centres may facilitate the professional

competence certification process by entering into

partnerships and agreements with the competence

certification organizations.

For the regulated veterinary surgeon profession validation/

certification and/or recognition in the studied Member States, the

competent authorities indicated in Table 1 were appointed.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the training titles for the

veterinary surgeon have to be issued by the competent authorities in

the Member States and they have to be accompanied by the indicated

certificates, as applicable. The minimum level of training necessary

for the automatic recognition of the veterinary surgeon professional

qualification based on the community regulations11

is consistent with

Level 6 in the European Qualification Framework (EQF). Pursuant to

Directive 2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the professional

qualifications, the veterinary training consists in the graduation of a

university study program of at least five years, the requirements

being the same for all the studied European countries.

The study program leading to the issue of the veterinary surgeon

qualification titles includes at least the basic and specific subjects indicated

11 see Directive 2005/36/EC (Articles 17, 18, 19, 38); Directive 78/1026/EEC, with

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in Table 3, including the hands-on training in the field. The teaching of one

or more subjects may take place as part of the other subjects or in

connection with them. The hands-on training may be done as a rotation,

provided that it is based on an integral program and that it is directly

controlled by the competent authority or body and that it does not exceed

six months out of the total 5-year study program. Moreover, the allotment

of the theoretical and hands-on training among the various groups of

subjects is balanced and coordinated so that the knowledge and experience

may be properly achieved in order to allow the veterinary surgeons to fulfil

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Table 3. Mandatory subjects to achieving knowledge, skills and professional competences leading to the

issue of the veterinary surgeon qualification titles according to Directive 2005/36/EC

Basic

Subjects Specific Subjects

Fundamental

Sciences Clinical Sciences Animal

Production Food Hygiene

- physics

- chemistry

- animal

biology

- plant

biology

-

Mathematic

s applied to

biological

sciences

- Anatomy

(including

histology and

embryology)

- Physiology

- Biochemistry

- Genetics

- Pharmacology

- Pharmacy

- Toxicology

- Microbiology

- Obstetrics

- Pathology (including

pathological anatomy)

- Parasitology

- Clinical medicine and

surgery (including

anaesthesiology)

- Clinical lectures on

various domestic animals,

birds and other species of

animals

- Animal

production

- Animal

nutrition

- Agronomy

- Rural economy

- Animal

growing and

health

- Veterinary

hygiene

- Inspection and

control of foods for

animals or of

products of animal

origin

- Food hygiene and

technology

- Hands-on works

(including hands-on

works in the

slaughter and food

treating facilities)



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Basic

Subjects Specific Subjects

Fundamental

Sciences Clinical Sciences Animal

Production Food Hygiene

- Immunology

- Epidemiology

- Deontology

- Preventive medicine

- Radiology

- Reproduction and

reproduction disorders

- Veterinary medicine

and public health

- Legislation in veterinary

medicine and forensic

medicine

- Therapeutics

- Propaedeutics

- Animal

protection

aetiology.



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Table 4 identifies the qualification titles for the veterinary

surgeon in the educational system of each studied EU Member State.

Table 4. Degrees, certificates and other titles for veterinary surgeons

in the studied EU Member States12

EU

Member

State

Degree Title Body issuing

the degree

Certificate

accompanying

the degree

Romania Diploma de licenta de

medic veterinar

Universities -

Austria 1.Diplom-Tierarzt

2.Magister medicinae

veterinariae

Universität 1.Doktor der

Veterinärmedizi

n

2.Doctor

medicinae

veterinariae

3.Fachtierarzt

The Czech

Republic Diplom o ukončení

studia ve studijním

programu veterinární

lékařství (doktor

veterinární medicíny,

MVDr.)

Diplom o ukončení

studia ve studijním

programu veterinární

Veterinární

fakulta

univerzity v

České

republice

-

12 Sources: Directive 2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the professional

qualifications and Directive 2006/100/EC for adapting certain directives in the field of

people’s freedom to move, referring to the accession of Bulgaria and Romania



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EU

Member

State


the degree

Certificate

accompanying

the degree

hygiena a ekologie

(doktor veterinární

medicíny, MVDr.)

Denmark Bevis for bestået

kandidateksamen i

veterinærvidenskab

Kongelige

Veterinær- og

Landbohøjskol

e

-

Germany Zeugnis über das

Ergebnis des Dritten

Abscnitts der

Tierärztlichen Prüfung

und das

Gesamtergebnis der

Tierärztlichen Prüfung

Der

Vorsitzende

des

Prüfungsaussc

husses für die

Tierärztliche

Prüfung einer

Universität

oder

Hochschule

-

Italy Diploma di laurea in

medicine veterinaria

Università Diploma di

abilitazione

all'esercizio

della medicine

veterinaria

Great

Britain

1. Bachelor of

Veterinary Science

(BVSc)

2. Bachelor of

Veterinary Science

(BVSc)

3. Bachelor of

Veterinary Medicine

(BvetMB)

1. University

of Bristol

2. University

of Liverpool

3. University

of Cambridge

4. University

of Edinburgh

5. University

-



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EU

Member

State


the degree

Certificate

accompanying

the degree

4. Bachelor of

Veterinary Medicine

and Surgery (BVM& S)

5. Bachelor of

Veterinary Medicine

and Surgery (BVM& S)

6. Bachelor of

Veterinary Medicine

(BvetMed)

of Glasgow

6. University

of London

The

Netherlands

Getuigschrift van met

goed gevolg afgelegd

diergeneeskundig/veear

tsenijkundig examen

- -

As seen in Tables 3 and 4, if we take into account the learning

results and the competence descriptors, we find similarities in the

training and the obtaining of the qualification titles for the veterinary

surgeon profession for all the studied Member States. The bodies

issuing the education degrees are represented by universities, the

competence certification being done in a similar way for the higher

education units in the European Union. In this case, the procedure for

receiving the veterinary surgeon title entitling the practicing of the

regulated profession complies with the specific requirements of the

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However, in the studied countries the competent authorities for

this regulated profession are different as far as the institutional

organization is concerned and their duties are focused either on the

qualification acknowledgement or on validation or certification

activities.

At national level, the professional recognition of the degrees,

certificates or other documents confirming the quality as a veterinary

surgeon is done by the Romanian Veterinary Medical College. The

Veterinary Medical College issues certificates of conformity for

occupational purposes for the recognition – in one of the EU

Member States – of the official titles for qualification in the

veterinary surgeon profession, titles that are issued by the higher

education units accredited in Romania.

In a similar way, the other competent authorities in the Member

States (see Table 1 and Annex 2) in charge with the competence

validation / certification are involved in the professional recognition

of the qualification titles, which attest the quality as a veterinary

surgeon and provide the information necessary for the granting of the

right the nationals have to practice the profession (see also Chapter

III).



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III. Recognition processes for the qualifications

achieved in other Member States of the European

Union

The professional recognition refers to the assessment

methodologies and procedures in view of practicing the veterinary

surgeon profession.

In order to work as a veterinary surgeon in a country of the

European Union (called the host country) other than the country

where the qualification title was achieved (the country of origin), you

have to apply to the competent authority supervising the profession

in that Member State and to provide a proof of your qualifications. In

the case of the studied countries, the competent authorities in any of

the EU Member States have to recognize any of the qualification

titles for the veterinary surgeon profession, which are indicated in

Table 4, the qualification automatic recognition taking place only if

the minimum requirements are met with reference to the

qualification level and to the learning results based on the study

programs including the subjects indicated in Table 3. We have to add

that if the qualification obtained in a country of origin does not meet

the basic criteria for the automatic recognition laid down in Directive



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qualifications (for instance, your qualification title is not laid down

in Annex V.5.4.2 in Directive 2005/36/EC), the veterinary surgeon

profession might be recognized either as part of a regime of achieved

rights (example: at least three years of professional experience over

the last five years) or through a non-automatic recognition process as

part of the general system for qualification recognition.13

In the

concrete case of the studied Member States, there might be aspects

regarding the recognition system with compensatory actions only if

the study programs completed by the nationals do not meet the

requirements laid down in Directive 2005/36/EC with reference to

the contents of the curriculum and to the acquiring of the proper

professional competences.

A) Similarities regarding the recognition of the

qualifications acquired in view of practising the veterinary

surgeon profession in the eight EU Member States (Austria, the

Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the

Netherlands and Romania)

If the focus is on the ways to recognize the veterinary surgeon

qualification in various EU countries, we can see that there are

13Source:http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/directive_in_practice/automatic_recognition/veterinary_surgeon/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/directive_in_practice/automatic_recognition/veterinary_surgeon/index_en.htm




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certain common elements regarding the procedure for the regulated

profession recognition including the following stages:

1. The information of the migrant / applicant (you) – through

national / unique points of contact (UPC) or from the competent

authorities,

2. The submission of your documents in the form requested by the

competent authorities in the host country (see the documents

requested by each Member State). At the moment, the European

Commission proposes the minimization of bureaucracy14

through

the elimination of the Apostille and of a series of administrative

requirements for the legalization of the official documents

pertaining to the people living and working in other Member

States. For the citizens of a country of the European Union or of

the European Economic Area, in most of the cases the documents

are forwarded electronically or by mail to the Unique Point of

Contact (UPC) or to the competent authority in charge with

processing your application.

3. The verification of the applicant's file contents and the control

meant to identify whether or not the conditions are being met

(including requirements regarding linguistic and legislative

14 Source: http://ec.europa.eu/romania/news/24042013_documente_oficiale_ro.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/romania/news/24042013_documente_oficiale_ro.htm



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knowledge, requirements regarding the registration in the

profession records, fees, etc.). The respective competent authority

has to solve your application within 1 month since the receipt of

the file and to ask for the missing documents if they are necessary

for the proper processing of your application.

4. The processing of the application / file through the analysis of the

documents and the making of the recognition decision: the

competent authority has to assess the qualifications and to decide

whether or not to issue a decision for the recognition of the

qualification referring to your application within three months (or

four months for certain complicated cases in the non-automatic

recognition field). Following the analysis of your file, the

decision for the professional qualification recognition shall be

issued.

5. In the case of a favourable decision for the recognition of the

veterinary surgeon qualification, the competent authority shall

issue a certificate and you shall be registered in the records of the

respective authority. If a Member State decides to recognize a

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6. If the qualification automatic recognition is not accepted, the

rejection or the compensation decision has to be justified and it

may be subject to an appeal in court.

We have to add that the rejection decision or the failure to make

a decision within the set timeframe has to be subject to the means of

appeal laid down in the internal law. The Member States have to

justify such decisions regarding the recognition of veterinary surgeon

degrees, certificates or other titles.

On the other hand, a more easy way to solve the problems

regarding the recognition of the professional qualifications or the

competence certification is the SOLVIT15

network, where the EU

Member States cooperate in order to solve – without using the legal

proceedings – the problems occurring due to the inappropriate

application of the legislation regarding the internal market by the

public authorities.

SOLVIT deals with the cross-border problems16

between an

enterprise or a citizen (on one hand) and a public authority (on the

other hand) where the community legislation might have been

15

http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/site 16 the professional recognition of qualifications and degrees; the level of workplace

occupation; the access to education; the product / service access to the market, etc.

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incorrectly applied. The SOLVIT national centres in the eight EU

Member States analyzed by the guidelines are indicated in Annex 3.

B) The particularities of the processes for the recognition of

achieved qualifications in view of practising the veterinary

surgeon profession in the eight Member States of the European

Union

Below there are the particularities of the processes for the

recognition of the qualifications achieved in other EU Member

States.

1. The information referring to the conditions for the

qualification professional recognition and for the practising of the

veterinary surgeon profession in Romania is summarized in the

regulated profession sheet in Annex 4.

2. The procedure for the recognition of the professional

qualifications in view of practising the profession in the Czech

Republic consists in the same stages mentioned above. You may get

the application for the recognition of the veterinary surgeon

professional qualification from the Veterinary Medical Chamber in

the Czech Republic (as the competent authority) or from the Ministry

of Education, Youth and Sport (as the point of contact / UPC). You

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documents. According to the national legislation, besides the

identification details (personal data), the application shall have to

indicate: the regulated profession the application refers to, the

regulation profession practicing duration and form (as an employee

or as self-employed). The documents requested from the applicant

are as follows:

• the ID Card, the proof of his/her citizenship and other legal

certification evidence, as applicable;

• the proof of the professional qualifications; the proof of other

achieved competences – with clear indication of the level of

completed education (bachelor or master’s degree, the education /

training duration and contents); a certificate of conformity or another

document certifying the profession; just as in Romania, there are

requirements referring to the linguistic knowledge;

• the document confirming the payment of the fees; the

administrative fee for the submission of the application form for the

recognition of the professional qualifications is of – CZK 2,000, in

addition to the fee for the processing of the file by the Professional

Chamber (according to the Veterinary Medical Chamber

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The proofs regarding the professional qualifications and the

achieved competences have to be translated into Czech, unless an

international treaty or the Czech legislation provides otherwise.

When the competent authority cannot establish the authenticity of the

documents through the administrative cooperation, the authority may

request the originals or legalized photocopies of the professional

qualification evidence and other competences / documents (which

shall be returned within 15 business days since the issue of the

recognition decision).

The file may be submitted both at the competent authority and

at the Unique Point of Contact, but the professional qualification

recognition process is done by the Veterinary Medical Chamber in

the Czech Republic (CA). Within maximum 3 months (90 days)

since the verification of the file and the processing of the application,

the competent authority has to assess the qualifications and to decide

whether or not to issue a decision for the qualification recognition

regarding your application. Pursuant to the national legislation, the

authority has the obligation to make its decision without any delay

and not later than 60 days since the submission of the applicant’s

complete file. The Veterinary Medical Chamber in the Czech

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professional qualification or the rejection of the application for the

professional qualification recognition. There may also be cases when

compensatory actions have to be taken prior to the recognition (see

Chapter III). Moreover, an appeal may be filed against the competent

authority’s decision under the legislation in the Czech Republic.

3. In Denmark the procedure for the professional qualification

recognition in view of practising the veterinary surgeon profession is

simplified as there is no application form. In exchange, the

justifying documents have to be accompanied by a letter in which

you indicate the profession you want to be recognized and provide

reasons for your intent to practice your profession by settling down

in Denmark. The file may be submitted at the Danish Veterinary and

Food Administration (the competent authority) or at the Unique

Point of Contact.

Under the national legislation (see Table 2) and the community

legislation, the requirements regarding the application file consist in:

your contact details (name, address,....); your citizenship proof (a

copy of your ID Card or passport); the qualification titles providing

you with access to the veterinary profession; other documents /

additional information that might influence the qualification

assessment (degrees, Resume, etc.); a certificate issued by the



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competent sanitary authorities (issued in English), which has to

confirm that you have the legal right to work in this profession

("Certificate of Current Professional Status / Good Standing")

(valid for 3 months); the fee payment proof, if applicable. You have

to provide translations (in Danish or English) of the important

documents (the professional qualifications, the certificate confirming

the conferred rights, certificates of professional experience, etc.),

except for the documents issued in English, Norwegian or Swedish.

Non-certified translations shall be accepted for this profession. The

applicant’s file has to include documents complying with certain

special conditions that are not covered by the EU standards only if

the candidate is not an EU / EEA citizen.17

The provision of temporary or occasional services from the EU /

EEA Member States in Denmark by carrying out professional

activities in the veterinary field shall be done by notifying the Danish

competent authority through a written statement accompanied by the

following documents / information: contact details, citizenship proof,

veterinary practice certificate, certificate of good conduct, a

document confirming your legal settlement, legalized photocopies of

the professional qualification documents. Besides this, the competent

17 http://fivu.dk/en/education-and-institutions/recognition-and-transparency/regulated-professions/list-of-regulated-professions

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authority shall not verify the veterinary surgeon professional

qualifications.

4. If we talk about the practising of the veterinary surgeon

profession in Germany, the qualification recognition process follows

the same stages as the process proposed above.

The applications may be forwarded directly to the competent

authority or to the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB),

which resends the applications to the competent authority. The

necessary documents for the submission of the professional

qualification recognition application are the following: the identity

document (a copy of the ID Card or passport); a table with an

overview of the training (in German) as well as of any paid

workplace up to that moment; the proof of the professional

qualifications; the proof of the relevant work experience; other

certificates of competence (i.e. continuous training); a statement

indicating that no application has been filed before for the

determination of the equivalence. The competent authority may ask

for copies of original certificates or documents. In certain cases, the

authority may accept plain copies of the documents. The documents

have to be translated into German by public appointed and sworn

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Compared to other studied Member States, there are certain

particularities regarding the assessment of the applicant’s file with

focus on the professional experience necessary for a certain field of

business. As fields of business, the national veterinary surgeons may

work mainly in veterinary offices and clinics. Other employment

opportunities are provided by the veterinary authorities, the

veterinary research or veterinary use institutes or by higher education

units.

As a veterinary surgeon, your professional qualification has to

be recognized by the Veterinary Chamber in the German land where

you want to work under the community regulations and in

compliance with the specific regulations applicable in the German

land where you want to practice your profession. For the veterinary

surgeon specialist, the professional qualification recognition is

granted only if the theoretical and practical training led to the issue

of the certificate for professional competences as being equivalent to

the continuous qualification and training in Germany, and the

procedure may vary from one German land to another. In principle,

the procedure compares the foreign professional qualifications with a

similar German occupation and there is certain flexibility in the

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experience achieved in Germany or abroad may also be taken into

account in addition to the training; if no proper evidence may be

provided in support of the qualifications, an analysis of the

qualifications may be conducted for the professional skills to be

determined (i.e. technical discussions or hands-on test). If there are

significant differences between the learning results leading to the

foreign professional qualifications and the German ones, the

qualification recognition involves compensatory actions (an

adjustment course or a skills test, as applicable).

The procedure should not last longer than three months; in

difficult cases, the decision period may be extended only once for

justified reasons. The period of time during which the decision has to

be made starts with the receipt of all the necessary documents.

5. Regarding the recognition of the veterinary surgeon

qualification in Italy, it is done through automatic recognition under

in the Legislative Decree no. 206/2007 for the regulated professions

in the community area, which transposes in Italy Directive


qualifications, including the mutual recognition of degrees,

certificates and other official qualification titles in veterinary

medicine (see Chapter I). The procedure regarding the issue of the



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veterinary surgeon professional qualification recognition decision

mainly complies with the ways mentioned above, and the documents

requested for the submission of the file are similar to those in the

other studied Member States. In this process, as it is performed in

Italy, there is a particularity shown below.

As mentioned above, for the practising of the veterinary surgeon

profession there is a professional register and this is why the degree /

qualification title prior recognition is necessary (see Chapter II). For

example, for the recognition of the veterinary surgeon degree

obtained in Romania, the applicant has / you have to submit to the

Italian Ministry of Health a standard application together with the

following documents:

1) a legalized photocopy of the degree to be recognized;

2) the authenticated photocopy of the certificate granting the right to

practice the profession;

3) a certificate of conformity issued by the competent authority in the

country having issued the degree, according to the community

legislation and referring to the name of the specialty and the

minimum training criteria;

4) the Certificate of Good Standing issued by the competent

authority in Romania, which confirms that you are the lawful holder



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of the degree and that there are no restrictions regarding the

practising of the profession in your country of origin.

As the veterinary surgeon profession is regulated in Romania,

the following documents shall be submitted for the qualification

recognition in Italy:

1) a certificate / an attestation issued by the competent authority in

Romania, indicating that the degree in question authorizes in the

country of origin the practising of the applicant’s profession;

2) the detailed academic curriculum with a clear indication of the

hours done and of the topics debated for each individual subject as

well as the number of rotation hours done; this document has to be

issued by the university having issued the degree (see the descriptive

supplement / official transcript);

3) a certificate confirming the activity carried out in the country of

origin after the issue of the degree to be recognized;

4) a certificate confirming the performance of rotations, specialty

courses or other continuous training diplomas.

All the documents in Romanian have to be accompanied by the

translation into Italian, which has to be certified by the Italian

Embassy in Romania or by an Italian court.



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6. In Great Britain the practising of the veterinary surgeon

regulated profession may be done only after the recognition of the

professional qualification and the registration at the competent

authority appointed by the British authorities. For the recognition of

the professional qualifications obtained in another Member State of

the European Union, the competent authorities usually request that

the following formalities are fulfilled when the file is submitted: a

form has to be filled out; the citizenship / identity has to be proven

(passport, ID Card or birth certificate); the qualification title (the

degree / document confirming the completion of the necessary form

of training in order to have access to the regulated profession); other

evidence for the professional qualification and experience in the

veterinary field (the proof confirming the completion of a rotation

stage or the registration with a similar body in the country of origin;

the proof of the professional experience); a medical certificate; a

certificate regarding the professional reputation, issued by the

competent authority in the country of origin.

As in other Member States (the Czech Republic,...) the

competent authorities shall inform you – within one month – if the

file is complete or if you have to submit other additional necessary

documents. Within 4 months since the submission of the complete



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file the authorities shall have to issue a decision referring to your

access to the profession in question. For the processing of the

applications you might have to pay certain commissions that cannot

be higher than the costs actually paid by the competent authorities in

order to provide this service.

The authorities may decide on the recognition of the

professional qualifications and grant the right to exercise a regulated

profession in Great Britain or they may recommend the application

of compensatory actions if there are differences between the

qualifications obtained in the country of origin and the professional

qualifications necessary in Great Britain for you to practice the

veterinary surgeon profession. The compensatory actions may

consist in an adaptation stage of maximum three years or they may

require you to take a skills test. Most of the times, the people asking

for access to a regulated profession would have the opportunity to

chose between the two compensatory actions.

7. In Austria, the National Information Centre on the

Recognition of EU Degrees ENIC-NARIC18

Austria within the

Federal Ministry of Science and Research is in charge with the

academic and professional recognition of the higher education and

18 ENIC – The European Network of Information Centres; NARIC – The National

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training qualifications (bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, doctoral

degree) in Austria. The recognition of the academic qualifications is

done by the higher education units and the veterinary surgeon

professional qualification recognition is done by the Federal Ministry

of Health or the authorities in the Lands (as the competent

authorities). The recognition procedure consists in the same stages:

the submission of the standard application and of the file compiled

for the qualification recognition, the verification of the submitted

documents, the application assessment with reference to the

recognition of the qualification obtained in other states, the

equivalence and identification of the potential training differences as

well as the issue of the decision regarding the qualification

recognition, may even conditioned by compensatory actions. The file

compiled for the qualification recognition application for the

practising of the profession in Austria has to include the

confirmations issued by the authority in the different type providing

the same functional role with reference to the documents pertaining

to the person in question, and the necessary documentation is similar

to the one in the other Member States (regarding the qualification

evidence). All the justifying documents have to be drawn up in

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last between 2 and 6 months. Sometimes fees are being charged for

the recognition procedure. It is deemed that the positive decision for

the qualification recognition through the procedure mentioned above

replaces the Austrian qualification title and allows the person to have

access to the labour market by granting him/her the right to practice

the said profession. Moreover, there are cases when based on special

training agreements, certain training programs attended in Germany

or Hungary are being considered equivalent.

8. In the Netherlands, the Organization for International

Cooperation in Higher Education - Nuffic is the institution

authorized (in Hague) for the recognition of the higher education

degrees and to also provide the necessary support to the applicants

asking for their academic qualifications to be recognized. The

veterinary surgeon professional qualification recognition is done

under the national and community legislation19

(see also Chapter I),

and the competent authority is the Ministry of Health, Welfare and

Sport. In the Netherlands the veterinary surgeon is a profession

regulated by the Veterinary Practise Act, and this is why the

registration in the Veterinary Medicine Register is mandatory.

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IV. Practising of the veterinary surgeon profession in

the European Union

Directives 2005/36/EC regarding the recognition of the

professional qualifications and 2006/123/EC regarding the services

on the internal market provide an explicit legal framework for the

European citizens’ mobility in view of them practising the veterinary

surgeon regulated profession.20

Obviously, the practising of the

profession in the veterinary medicine field may have a significant

socio-economic impact on the animals’ health, on the public health

and consumer protection, on the food safety and environmental

protection and this is why the workers’ free movement in order to

practice this profession has to be consistent with the requirements

laid down in the sanitary-veterinary legislation and the transfer of

information21

in the field should be proactive. Moreover, at the

moment22

the workers’ movement is also subject to the specific

access conditions applicable to the labour market in that host country

(for example, the existence of the Denmark residence permit, the

issue of a work permit in Great Britain etc.).

20 FVE, Veterinarians crossing borders, 2007, p.p. 7-15 21 in compliance with the current legislation regarding the protection of data 22

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The veterinary surgeon profession may be practiced by an

European citizen in an EU / EEA Member State other than the one

where he/she obtained his/her professional qualification either as

self-employed or as an employee. The veterinary surgeon may carry

out activities in the exclusively dedicated fields of business or both

as a natural person or as a legal entity; he/she may carry out free

practice veterinary activities as an official veterinary surgeon or as an

employee working for veterinary clinics, veterinary education and/or

research units. Moreover, for the practising of the veterinary surgeon

profession there is a distinction between the “freedom to settle

down” and the “freedom to provide services” according to well-

defined criteria (duration, frequency, periodicity and continuation of

service provision).

The settling down conditions require the registration of the

veterinary surgeons in the records held by the competent authorities

in the countries where they practice their profession (example: the

National Registry of Veterinary Surgeons).

As seen in the previous chapter, for the temporary or occasional

provision of the veterinary services in a Member State other than the

country of origin, you do not have to ask for the professional

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be validated / certified (see the case of Italy). For the provision of the

temporary veterinary services a file is put together including proof of

your nationality, your legal residence and your professional

qualifications / competences, together with a statement (usually it is

updated every year). The documents are forwarded to the competent

authority (the professional organization).

Conclusions

As part of the IMI PQ NET project, these certification and

recognition guidelines have been prepared for the veterinary

surgeon profession. The necessity to draw up these guidelines is

justified by the mobility of the workers in this field, which means

that the veterinary surgeon profession is in top 10 regulated

professions in the ranking made based on the number of

qualification recognition decisions on the internal market.

The study regarding the aspects related to the veterinary

surgeon profession regulation in the eight EU Member States, i.e.

Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Great

Britain, the Netherlands and Romania, has indicated that there is a

national legislative framework harmonized with the European



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directives regarding the professional qualification recognition and

the sectoral directives for access to and practising the veterinary

surgeon profession in these countries, which facilitates the free

movement of veterinary workers throughout the European

Economic Area for settling down and/or for temporarily practicing

their profession in a Member State different from the one where

he/she had obtained the respective qualification title. The

veterinary surgeon profession is a sectoral regulated profession in

all of these countries being automatically recognized. The

minimum level of training for the veterinary surgeon is consistent

with Level 6 CEC/EQF, for the veterinary surgeon specialist or the

veterinary surgeon additional competence requirements being

applicable.

The competence validation/certification procedures applied

by the competent authorities have been simplified, which has led to

requirement standardization.

The veterinary surgeon professional qualification recognition

process is regulated in the EU Member States and the guidelines

define a framework procedure for the veterinary surgeon

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The work shows the main aspects regarding the access

conditions, the documents necessary for the recognition, analysis

particularities and the making of the recognition decision, specific

requirements for the recognition of qualifications in view of the

determination and practising of the veterinary surgeon profession

or the provision of veterinary services for the studied countries.

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Annex 1.

Abbreviations

CA Competent Authority

EQF European Qualification Framework

CMVRO Romanian Veterinary Medical Chamber

IMI PQ NET The acronym of the project “The Network of

Competent Authorities for Professional

Qualifications in Romania”

UPC Unique Point of Contact

EEA European Economic Area

IMI system Internal market information system

MS Member State (of the EU or EEA)

EU European Union



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Annex 2.

Regulation status for the veterinary surgeon profession in Romania and in other

Member States of the European Union

Profession

name in

language of

origin

Member State Competent Authority

Are there activities

reserved (exclusively /

shared) for the

profession?

Recognition acc. to

Directive 2005/36/EC

(national legislation)

Qualification

level

medic

veterinar

Romania Romanian Veterinary Medical

Chamber

www.cmvro.go.ro

yes Automatic recognition

system

6 corresp. EQF

veterinary

surgeon

Austria Federal Ministry of Health

(Bundesminister für Gesundheit)



system

6 corresp. EQF

http://www.cmvro.go.ro/




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Profession

name in

language of

origin




shared) for the

profession?

Recognition acc. to



Qualification

level

veterinární

lékaři

the Czech

Republic

Veterinary Medical Chamber in

Czech Republic

(Komora veterinárních lékařů Čr)



system

6 corresp. EQF

dyrlæge Denmark Danish Veterinary and Food

Administration (Fødevarestyrelse)

www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk


system

6 corresp. EQF

tierarzt Germany Veterinary Association

(Tierärztekammer)


system

6 corresp. EQF

veterinario Italy Ministry of Health

(Ministero della Salute)



system

6 corresp. EQF


http://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/






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Profession

name in

language of

origin




shared) for the

profession?

Recognition acc. to



Qualification

level

veterinary

surgeon

Great Britain (Royal College of Veterinary

Surgeons



system

6 corresp. EQF

dierenarts the

Netherlands

Ministry of Health, Welfare and

Sport (Ministerie van

Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en

Sport)

www.diergeneeskunderegister.nl


system

6 corresp. EQF





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Annex 3.

The SOLVIT national centres for the studied EU

Member States23

Member State SOLVIT Centre Contact persons Romania Ministerul Afacerilor

Europene, Guvernul Romaniei Bvd. Aviatorilor nr. 50A,

Sector 1, Bucharest 011854, Tel. +40 21 308 53 40; +4021

308 53 71; +40 37 410 45 23; Fax. +40

21 308 53 96 [email protected]

Romulus BENA Karina STAN Ramona-Maria

CIUCA

Austria Bundesministerium für

Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend, SOLVIT

Centre, Abteilung C1/2, Stubenring 1 AT - 1010 Wien, Tel. +43 1

71100-5119 Tel. +43 1 71100 - 5293 Tel. +43 1 71100-5187 Fax. +43 1 71100-2207

Sylvia Vana Alexandra

Gaudmann- Heber Christian Müller

23

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/solvit/site/centres/index_en.htm, last accessed on June

1st, 2013

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Member State SOLVIT Centre Contact persons [email protected]

the Czech

Republic

Odbor vnitřního trhu a služeb

EU, Ministerstvo průmyslu a

obchodu Na Františku 32 CZ

- 11015 Praha 1, Tel.

+420 22 422 1701

Fax. +420 22 485 3079,

[email protected]

Barbora

Hanáková

Zuzana Bakotová

Tomáš Stehlík

Denmark

Danish Business Authority

(Internal Market Centre)

Langelinie Allé 17 DK - 2100

Copenhagen,

Tel. +45 35 46 62 00 (the

hotline)

Tel. +45 35 46 66 16

Tel. +45 35 46 66 73,

[email protected]

Jens Kasper

Rasmussen

Sofie Freilev

Karin Kragshave

Kristian Yde

Agerbo

Germany

Bundesministerium für

Wirtschaft

und Technologie,

Scharnhorststr. 34-37

DE - 10115 Berlin, Fax. +49

3018 615 5379

[email protected]

Lisa Teichmann

Italy

Presidenza Consiglio Ministri Dipartimento Politiche

Comunitarie, Piazza Nicosia 20, IT - 00186 Roma, Tel. +39 06 677 95 844 Fax. +39 06 677 95 044,

Giuseppina

VALENTE Francesco CIPRI

Massimo

SANTORELLI

mailto:[email protected]





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Member State SOLVIT Centre Contact persons [email protected]

Great Britain

Department for Business,

Innovation and Skills 1 Victoria Street

UK - London SW1H 0ET Tel. +44 20 7215 2833

Fax. +44 20 7215 2234

[email protected]

Chris Korcz

the Netherlands

SOLVIT Nederland Ministerie van Economische

Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie Bezuidenhoutseweg 30 Postbus 20101 NL - 2500 EC Den Haag, Tel.

+31 70 379 7708 Fax. +31 70 379 7014

[email protected]

Koen van

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Annex 4.

Description of the profession regulated in Romania

Regulated

profession Veterinary Surgeon

Competent

Authority The Romanian Veterinary Medical Chamber

(CMVRO) Regulating

legislation Law no. 160/1998, republished

Access

conditions The veterinary surgeon is the Romanian or

foreign citizen who holds a veterinary surgeon

degree issued by an academic education unit in

Romania or abroad, which is officially

recognized in Romania by the competent

authority (the Ministry of National Education). The membership in the Veterinary Medical

College is mandatory for the practising of the

veterinary surgeon profession. The membership in the Romanian Veterinary

Medical Chamber is confirmed by the veterinary

surgeon’s ID Card (MSIDC), a document issued

upon enrolment. The veterinary medicine free practice certificate

is the document issued by the county or

Bucharest Council Executive Office attached to

the Romanian Veterinary Medical Chamber,

upon the veterinary surgeons’ request so that

they are granted the right to freely practice the

veterinary medicine. For the issue of the free practice certificate, the

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Card. Access file

For the issue of the ID Card the veterinary

surgeon files the following documents at the

Bucharest or county Council Executive Office

attached to the Veterinary Medical College:

a) a standard application (Annex no. 2)

b) a copy of the degree, certificate or official

title confirming the veterinary surgeon

qualification, issued by the competent

authorities in a Member State or – as applicable

– confirming that person’s professional

experience;

c) a copy of the ID Card;

d) a certificate of criminal record issued with

maximum 15 days prior to the submission of the

application;

e) a medical certificate confirming the physical

and mental health, issued by a specialized

medical unit; as the case may be, a health

certificate issued by the competent authority in

that state is accepted (valid for 3 months) f) a certificate issued by the domicile County

Executive Office at which the applicant was

already registered for that profession,

confirming the disciplinary status and the causes

that led to the termination of the veterinary

surgeon quality;

g) a 3/4 colour photography;

h) the registration fee payment proof;

i) an envelope file;

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who are citizens of the European Union or

European Economic Area Member States as

well as for the Swiss citizens and for the citizens

of third party countries, a certificate of good

standing issued by the professional forum in the

country where they are members in the national

professional organization has to be submitted. For the foreign citizens to be granted the

right to practice the veterinary surgeon

profession, the Romanian Veterinary Medical

Chamber (CMVRO) asks for: a) the proof of the applicant’s citizenship; b) a copy of the degrees, certificates or the

official qualification title confirming the

veterinary surgeon qualification and – as

applicable – the confirmation of that person’s

professional experience; c) documents issued by the competent

authorities in the Member State of origin or

regarding: the moral character of the person in

question, the lack of any bankruptcy case, the

lack of any serious professional error or offence

leading to the suspension or interdiction in

practising the profession; if the competent

authorities in the Member State of origin do not

issue such documents, they shall be replaced by

an affidavit or a solemn statement that has to

fulfil the validity conditions stipulated by the

Member State of origin in which it was issued

(valid for 3 months); d) a document regarding the physical and/or

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State of origin; if such a document is not

requested in the Member State of origin, a health

certificate issued by the competent authority in

that state is to be accepted; e) a certificate issued by the competent

authorities in the Member State of origin, which

certifies the conformity of the official

qualification titles for access to the veterinary

surgeon profession; f) a copy of the certificate confirming that the

person speaks a foreign language and for the

natural persons who are citizens of the EU/EEA

states, the file has to include also a copy of the

certificate confirming that the person speaks the

Romanian language; an interview may be

scheduled for the determination of the Romanian

linguistic and communication knowledge. The veterinary surgeon asking for the issue of

the free practice certificate has to file at the

Bucharest or county Council Executive Office

attached to the Veterinary Medical College the

following documents: a) a standard application (Annex no. 3); b) a copy of the veterinary surgeon degree or of

the document confirming that the person holds

the veterinary surgeon title; c) a copy of the ID Card; d) a copy of the ID Card issued by the CMVRO

Veterinary Medical College; e) a certificate of criminal record issued with

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f) a medical certificate confirming the physical

and mental health, issued by a specialized

medical unit; g) a certificate issued by the domicile County

Executive Office at which the applicant was

already registered for that profession,

confirming the disciplinary status and the causes

that led to the termination of the veterinary

surgeon quality; h) a 3/4 colour photography; i) the evidence of the person having paid his/her

contribution up to date; j) the evidence that the person paid the free

practice certificate issue fee; k) an affidavit confirming that the person has not

simultaneously applied for the issue of another

free practice certificate; l) an envelope file. The documentation shall be submitted at the

Veterinary Medical College - CMVRO. Description of

authorization

procedure

stages

For the registration at the CMVRO and the issue

of the ID Card, the applicant shall fill out a

standard application and shall file the set of

documents indicated by the Veterinary Surgeon

Bylaws at one of the county subsidiaries of the

Romanian Veterinary Medical Chamber.

Afterwards the ID Card (MSIDC) is issued in

original on a stamped paper bearing an

embossed press. After the MSIDC is issued, the veterinary

surgeon may ask for the issue of the free practice

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standard application and to file the set of

documents indicated by the Veterinary Surgeon

Bylaws at one of the county subsidiaries of the

Romanian Veterinary Medical Chamber. The veterinary surgeon asking for the issue of

the free practice certificate has to indicate in the

standard application the activities in the

following fields:, , , a) veterinary medical care; b) artificial inseminations; c) various specialized services and sanitary-

veterinary technical and legislative consultancy; d) manufacturing and marketing of anti-parasitic

and veterinary use medicines and of veterinary

use devices and instruments. Afterwards the free practice certificate is issued

in original on a stamped paper bearing an

embossed press and the applicant’s photography. Authorization

logical

diagram

see figure 1

Granted title /

certificate Free practice certificate

Fees24 For the ID Card of veterinary surgeon:

Registration fee – RON 100 Monthly contribution – RON 20 / month For the free practice certificate: Certificate issue fee – RON 20 / person;

Registration County records

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record Central database Authorization /

certificate

validity

For the certificate: The free practice certificate is endorsed by the

issuer every 2 years. The temporary or permanent withdrawal of the

free practice certificate is done by the Bucharest

or county Council Executive Office in any of the

following circumstances: a) non-compliance with the obligations

stipulated by this statute; b) breach of the current sanitary-veterinary

standards; c) deviations from the Veterinary Medical

Deontology Code, accompanied by the

application of the sanctions decided by the

higher or county or Bucharest deontology and

litigation commission; d) performance of activities other than those laid

down in Article 43 or failure to comply with the

conditions stipulated by the free practice

certificate; e) upon the termination of the activities or

purpose it was issued for; f) in any case of professional incapacity or

mental problem, all of these having to be

confirmed by an evaluation medical

commission; g) following the failure to reach the score

decided by the CMVRO Veterinary Medical

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pays his/her contribution. Procedure for

maintenance /

renewal of

authorization /

attestation

- Each year the veterinary surgeon has the

obligation to achieve the minimum score

decided by the National Council Resolution (by

actually attending various scientific events in the

field, publications, development courses, etc.) Other

organizations

involved

The county subsidiaries of the Romanian

Veterinary Medical College

Figure 1. The logical diagram for the free practice certificate to be issued

for the veterinary surgeon regulated profession



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