UCP/CRB architecture course — recognition under Directive 2005/36/EC
15.10.2015
Question for written answer P-013836-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Fernando Ruas (PPE)
In reply to a question that I put to the Commission on the above subject on 26 September 2014 (P-007193/2014), I was informed that ‘thorough assessment and analysis’ were needed and that it would be necessary to take into account ‘potential concerns expressed by other Member States' authorities and/or the Commission’.
The reply also stated that ‘The length of the notification procedure … depends on the accuracy of the originally submitted information, as well as timely responses to any subsequent inquiry or exchange of information’.
Bearing in mind that the procedure began more than two years ago and Annex V of the directive is in the process of being updated:
- 1.When will the course concerned be recognised?
- 2.Is it not absolutely unreasonable — and, from the point of view of ordinary Europeans, incomprehensible — that a procedure of this kind should take more than two years to complete?
- 3.The principle of sound administration, whereby public authorities are obliged to observe criteria of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and promptness (this general principle is laid down in, for example, the Portuguese Code of Administrative Procedure), requires dealings between private individuals and the authorities to proceed within given time-frames. That being the case, are not Commission departments obliged to meet set deadlines when dealing with private individuals and/or Member States?