19.4.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 165/19

(Case C-590/20) (*)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Coordination of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in respect of activities of doctors - Directives 75/363/EEC and 82/76/EEC - Specialist medical training - Appropriate remuneration - Application of Directive 82/76/EEC to training begun before its entry into force and continuing after the date of expiry of the period prescribed for its transposition)

(2022/C 165/21)

Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellants: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri and Others

Respondents and cross-appellants: UK and Others

Operative part of the judgment

Article 2(1)(c) and Article 3(1) and (2) of Council Directive 75/363/EEC of 16 June 1975 concerning the coordination of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in respect of activities of doctors, as amended by Council Directive 82/76/EEC of 26 January 1982, as well as the annex thereto, must be interpreted as meaning that any full-time or part-time specialist medical training begun before the entry into force, on 29 January 1982, of Directive 82/76 and continued after the expiry, on 1 January 1983, of the period prescribed for the transposition of that directive must, in respect of the period of that training running from 1 January 1983 until the end of that training, be subject to appropriate remuneration within the meaning of that annex, provided that that training concerns a medical specialty which is common to all the Member States or to two or more of them and is mentioned in Article 5 or Article 7 of Council Directive 75/362/EEC of 16 June 1975 concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in medicine, including measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services.

(*) Date lodged: 10.11.2020.