PILOT QUALIFICATIONS
August 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNBRITAIN is being brought before the European Court of Justice for its failure to adopt EU legislation insisting on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications of harbour pilots. The European Commission said the UK had failed to put into national law the directive 1999/42/EC and said this was "likely to prove an obstacle to the free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in the sectors concerned."The effect of the directive would be to oblige the UK to recognise the qualifications of pilots from other ...
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