We believe that acting on the following recommendations will make a positive impact on the licensing process and on the successful practice integration of international pharmacy graduates in Canada: first, to allocate funds for cultural adjustment programs, so that IPGs can better integrate into our health care system; second, to allocate funds to develop a national language benchmark for pharmacy practice to ensure national consistency and increase the coordination of fluency requirements with other health professions; third, to explore remediation opportunities and work with unsuccessful IPG candidates who are already residing in Can ...[+++]ada but are not able to obtain licensure to help them meet the core competency and licensing requirements; fourth, to consider strategies to more effectively integrate IPGs into leadership and mentorship positions; and last, to support HRSDC funding for the proposed sector study of pharmacy human resources in Canada.

Today, foreign certificates are officially recognised in the same was as Slovenian certificates.

Today, foreign certificates are officially recognised in the same was as Slovenian certificates.

The procedure must also ensure that, if the qualifications acquired by the individual concerned in another Member State are found to be equivalent, the foreign diploma certifying those qualifications is fully recognized by the host Member State.

The Court has just replied with a judgment which goes beyond the sporting context since it states that where, in a Member State, access to paid employment is conditional upon the possession of a national diploma or a foreign diploma recognized as equivalent thereto, the principle of the free movement of workers laid down in Article 48 of the Treaty requires that a decision refusing to recognize the equivalence of a diploma issued to a worker who is a national of another Member State by that State must be capable of being challenged in court as to its legality in relation to Community Law, and that the person concerned must be informed of ...[+++] the reasons for the decision.

The case finally reached the Tribunal de grande Instance (Regional Court) in Lille which then asked the Court of Justice of the European Community for a preliminary ruling on the following question: "Does the requirement that a person wishing to exercise a gainful occupation as a trainer with a sports team (Article 43 of the French Law of 16 July 1984) must hold a French diploma recognized thereto by a committee whose rulings do not state the reasons on which they are based and against whose decisions no specific legal remedy is avail ...[+++]able constitute a restriction on freedom of movement for workers as defined by Articles 48 to 51 of the EEC Treaty, in the absence of any Directive applicable to that occupation?".