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Version date: 17 January 2014 - onwards

Article 49b Common training tests

1. For the purpose of this Article, a 'common training test' means a standardised aptitude test available across participating Member States and reserved to holders of a particular professional qualification. Passing such a test in a Member State shall entitle the holder of a particular professional qualification to pursue the profession in any host Member State concerned under the same conditions as the holders of professional qualifications acquired in that Member State.

2. The common training test shall comply with the following conditions:

(a) the common training test enables more professionals to move across Member States;

(b) the profession to which the common training test applies is regulated, or the education and training leading to the profession concerned is regulated in at least one third of the Member States;

(c) the common training test has been prepared following a transparent due process, including the relevant stakeholders from Member States where the profession is not regulated;