Press Release: Professional qualifications: Commission takes action to ensure that Luxembourg and Portugal implement EU rules

The Commission decided, under Article 228 of the EC Treaty, to send a reasoned opinion to Luxembourg and a letter of formal notice to Portugal over their failure to execute judgements of the European Court of Justice. These judgements concerned the non-communication of measures taken to implement Directive 2006/100/EC, which provides for technical adaptations to the Directives on professional qualifications further to the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU. It updates, amongst others, all the lists of qualifications which benefit from automatic recognition by completing them with the corresponding Bulgarian and Romanian qualifications. The deadline for transposing the Directive expired on 1 January 2007.