The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2016

Insertion of article 42A

38.  After article 42, insert—

“Professional traineeships carried out in other relevant European States, etc.

42A.— (1) If a person is required to carry out a professional traineeship of a particular standard in order to be appropriately qualified under article 21 (pre-entry requirements in respect of qualifications and additional education, training or experience: pharmacists) or article 22 (pre-entry requirements in respect of qualifications and additional education, training or experience: pharmacy technicians), a professional traineeship of an equivalent standard which has been carried out by a person whose home Member State is the United Kingdom and which satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2) is treated as meeting that requirement.

(2) The conditions are that —

(a) at least three quarters of the time of which the professional traineeship consisted, or such lesser proportion as the Council may consider appropriate in any particular case, was spent in the United Kingdom; and

(b) the remaining time of which the professional traineeship consisted was spent in another relevant European State.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies if—

(a) a person whose home Member State is the United Kingdom applies to the Council to be entered in the Register as a pharmacist or as a pharmacy technician; and

(b) the person has carried out a professional traineeship, all or part of which was carried out in a third country.

(4) The Registrar must take the professional traineeship into account when considering whether the person satisfies any requirement under article 21 or 22 for entry on the Register which includes a requirement to carry out a professional traineeship in the United Kingdom.

(5) The Council must publish guidelines on the organisation and recognition of professional traineeships carried out in relevant European States and third countries (including, in particular, guidelines on the role of the supervisor of the professional traineeship).

(6) In this article, “home Member State” has the meaning given in article 1 of the Directive.”.