Posted By Paulo Dinis
I´m very glad this topic capture your attention.
Extracted from the website main page mentioned early.
"A profession is said to be regulated when access to it is subject by legal, regulatory or administrative provisions to the possession of a specific qualification.
Each country is responsible for providing and updating its own information. The lists of regulated professions for the 10 new Member States, Switzerland and those regulated under Directive 1999/42/CE are still being compiled and will only be completed over the coming months"
So let´s do a quick "role playing", hope you don´t get offended by this "exercise".
Let´s imagine Max Bancroft and Philby are from UK
Let´s imagine Kieran J Duignan is from France.
Let´s imagine is from Portugal, well no need to imagine i am :)
In these scenario all of them are fluent in English, French and Portuguese so no language barrier exists.
Max Bancroft, Philby, Kieran J Duignan and Paulo Dinis are all working as H&S Officers (not the same qualification / competence but they practice the same job). H&S is based on international concept´s, methods and risk control is the same everywhere etc but as expected local regulation / normalization / standard´s differs.
Max Bancroft and Philby receives an irrefutable professional challenge to work in a site based in European State Member - Portugal.
Kieran J Duignan receives an irrefutable professional challenge to work in a site based in European State Member - United Kingdom.
Paulo Dinis receives an irrefutable professional challenge to work in a site based in European State Member - France
Kieran J Duignan can "move" from France to UK and access to H&S Officer profession since it´s not regulated in UK. He can start working the next day.
Paulo Dinis can "move" from Portugal to France and acess to H&S Officer profession since it´s not regulated in France, therefore start working the next day.
Max Bancroft and Philby can´t work as H&S Officer in Portugal due to the fact the profession is regulated in Portugal.
In order to work in Portugal you need to have autorization from Portuguese authorities
http://www.ishst.pt/ and start your recognizion process. Best case scenario you start working somewhere in 03 months to 08 months untill the autorization is delivered.
According to Portuguese national legislation your work contract ( of course if hired as H&S Officer ) is not valid if you don´t have the legal autorization to do so.
That fact arrised from the regulation status for the profession in Portugal. Same procedures aplies if you work in Spain since it´s also regulated there.
hummmm
As Philby´ mentioned earlier i am intimating you ( had to check the dictionary for that word ).
Is the commom market a paradox ?
Worker´s freedom of movement ?
According to european statistic only 01 % of work force is mobile in the european market.
We might have the same european legislation ( with national specificities ) but we can´t really be that mobile can we ?
I look forward for the Chech Republic follow up on this matter.