Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 02/21/2013

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 85/384/EEC, on the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in architecture, including measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services, precludes a national provision in accordance with which persons holding a qualification issued by a Member State other than the host Member State enabling the holder to take up activities in the field of architecture may exercise, in that latter Member State, activities relating to buildings of artistic interest only in so far as they show, where necessary by way of a specific examination of their professional suitability, that they have special qualifications in the field of cultural assets.

Parties: Ordine degli Ingegneri di Verona e Provincia e altri

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 15 Right of establishment - Freedom to provide services

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