Article 3 The Competent Authorities

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 3(4)(b)(ii) words substituted by European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) 2003 reg. 10(3)(a)
art. 3(4)(c)(iia) inserted by European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) 2003 reg. 10(3)(c)
art. 3(4)(c)(ii) words substituted by European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) 2003 reg. 10(3)(b)

(1)

In relation to specialist medical qualifications, there shall be two competent authorities in the United Kingdom for the purposes of Title II (mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in medicine) and Title III (coordination of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in respect of activities of doctors) of the Directive.

(2)

The competent authority for the purposes of the recognition and registration of specialist medical qualifications is the GMC.

(3)

Subject to paragraph (6), the competent authority for the purposes of specialist medical training and the issue of CCSTs and certain other certificates is the body specified in Part II of Schedule 1 (being a body constituted as set out in Part I of that Schedule), which shall be known as the Specialist Training Authority of the medical Royal Colleges.

(4)

Accordingly, in relation to specialist medical qualifications, in addition to the functions conferred upon them elsewhere in this Order—

(a)

the GMC shall as respects the United Kingdom perform the functions of the host member State referred to in article 22 of the Directive (which concerns requiring confirmation of authenticity of foreign diplomas and confirmation that a person has fulfilled the Directive’s training requirements);

(b)

the STA shall as respects the United Kingdom have the functions of a competent authority referred to in the following articles of the Directive—

(i)

article 8(2) (issue of certificates relating to training in the United Kingdom in certain specialties),

(ii)

article 8(3) (requirement to verify content and duration of foreign specialist training and to communicate what additional training is required in the United Kingdom),

(iii)

article 9(2) (issue of certificates there mentioned to specialists whose qualifications were awarded in the United Kingdom or who have practised their specialty in the United Kingdom),

(iv)

article 9(5) (issue of certificates of fulfilment of Directive training requirements in respect of qualifications which do not conform with the designations set out in the Directive), and

(v)

article 22 (function of confirming authenticity of CCSTs and of confirming that a person has fulfilled the Directive’s training requirements); and

(c)

the STA shall as respects the United Kingdom perform the functions of a member State referred to in the following articles of the Directive—

(i)

article 8(1) (requirement to fulfil domestic requirements for specialist training in certain specialties), and

(ii)

article 8(2) (requirement to take into account training already undertaken abroad).

(5)

The GMC and the STA are hereby designated as respects the United Kingdom for the purposes set out in this article in accordance with article 42 of the Directive (which requires member States to designate the authorities competent to issue or receive the diplomas, documents and other information referred to in the Directive).

(6)

The functions of the STA under or by virtue of this Order are without prejudice to the functions of the GMC or of any of its statutory committees under the Medical Act 1983^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1983 c. 43. See section 1(3) for the definition of “statutory committees”.