La nuova direttiva sul riconoscimento delle qualifiche professionali tra liberalizzazione e trasparenza

This article focuses on the most innovative features of Dir- ective 2013/55/EU amending Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012. After hav- ing outlined the path that led to the adoption of the Directive and showed the need to modernise Union law in this area, this article analyses a) the European Professional Card; b) partial access; c) professional traineeship; d) common training principles; and e) the further most important revisions of Directive 2005/36/EC aiming at promoting the free movement of profes- sionals. This paper also addresses the novelties introduced by Directive 2013/55/EU to ensure consumer protection and to increase transparency and administrative cooperation. Finally, this article shows that in most cases the European Court of Justice anticipated the results of the new Direc- tive. Still, a Directive is deemed as necessary to clearly and completely regu- late the efforts of modernisation in this area, which hopefully will be shared by the European Commission and Member States.