CEPI

We welcome the proposals made by the European Commission and the attention which it has paid to some of the administrative weaknesses in the current Directive. We also appreciate the framework provided for the development of a European Professional Card and the new regime for automatic recognition of professional qualifications on the basis of common training principles for those professions which fall within the general system under the Directive. However in our view several points still require some attention...

The European Commission published on 19 December its proposals for the modernisation of the system for the recognition of professional qualifications. CEPI welcomes the targeted approach of the Commission and the steps which it proposes taking to modernise and improve the current system...

It was with much regret that we heard about the recent death of Jacques Longuet, President of FNAIM the French Fédération Nationale de l’Immobilier from 1986 to 1991, last 4th of January at the age of 86 in Cannes, the city where he worked for many years. CEPI wishes to pay tribute to the man who was, for FNAIM, instrumental in the formation of EPAG. We offer our deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues from FNAIM.

Timo Multanen, outgoing President, Claudine Speltz, President elect, and the Members of the CEPI Board of Directors wish you, and your family, a happy and prosperous New Year!

In the framework of our series of interviews “CEPI meets”, we recently met with Ms Maria Grubben, Head of Unit Internal Market Information (IMI) System. IMI is an online application that enables public authorities at different levels to communicate with their counterparts in other countries. We asked her how it works in practice...