On 4 December 2017 the European Parliament’s IMCO committee took the vote on its position on the Proportionality Directive. On the crucial issue of the exemption of health professions from the Directive, the proposal was defeated by 20 votes to 15. The European Parliament will therefore now go into negotiations with the Council without a […]

  “Economics vs Health? EU Proportionality Test for Health Professions”   18 October 2017, 13h00 – 15h00 European Parliament, Room: JAN4Q1 Co-hosted by MEP Lieve Wierinck, and MEP Dr Peter Liese   The event is web-streamed HERE. Show the web-streamed event The Council of European Dentists (CED) is a European not-for-profit association representing over 340,000 […]

On 8 April 2017, the CPME Board adopted the ‘CPME Position on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a proportionality test for adoption of new regulation for professions COM(2016) 822 final’ (CPME 2016/009 FINAL).

The European Commission just released a report with ‘Key Findings and Recommendations on Education and Training in Patient Safety across Europe’. The report is a common effort of the ‘Subgroup on Education and Training of the Patient Safety and Quality of Care Working Group of the European Commission’. CPME contributed to the report with a […]