‘2a. Member States shall recognise the qualifications of specialised doctors awarded in Italy, and listed in points 5.1.2 and 5.1.3 of Annex V, to doctors who started their specialist training after 31 December 1983 and before 1 January 1991, despite the training concerned not satisfying all the training requirements set out in Article 25, if the qualification is accompanied by a certificate issued by the competent Italian authorities stating that the doctor concerned has effectively and lawfully been engaged, in Italy, in the activit ...[+++]ies of a medical specialist in the same specialist area concerned, for at least seven consecutive years during the 10 years preceding the award of the certificate’.

‘3a. Member States may provide, in national legislation, for partial exemptions from parts of the specialist medical training courses listed in point 5.1.3 of Annex V, to be applied on a case-by-case basis provided that that part of the training has been followed already during another specialist training course listed in point 5.1.3 of Annex V, for which the professional has already obtained the professional qualification in a Member State.

Following the cancellation of remaining works for the EUR1 million 1999 project for rehabilitation of the hospital in North Mitrovica, approximately EUR0.5 million was re-allocated to create a Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pristina.

8) in Article 9, the following paragraph shall be added: "2a Member States shall recognise evidence of formal qualifications in specialised medicine awarded in Spain to doctors who completed specialised training before 1 January 1995 which did not comply with the formal training requirements laid down in Articles 24 to 27, if the evidence is accompanied by a certificate awarded by the competent Spanish authorities attesting to the fact that the person concerned has passed the test of specific professional competence organised in the context of the special regularisation measures contained in Royal Decree 1497/99 with the aim of verifying ...[+++] that the person concerned has a level of knowledge and competence comparable to that of doctors holding the specialist doctors' qualifications which, in the case of Spain, are referred to in Articles 5(3) and 7(2)".

8) in Article 9, the following paragraph shall be added: "2a Member States shall recognise evidence of formal qualifications in specialised medicine awarded in Spain to doctors who completed specialised training before 1 January 1995 which did not comply with the formal training requirements laid down in Articles 24 to 27, if the evidence is accompanied by a certificate awarded by the competent Spanish authorities attesting to the fact that the person concerned has passed the test of specific professional competence organised in the context of the special regularisation measures contained in Royal Decree 1497/99 with the aim of verifying ...[+++] that the person concerned has a level of knowledge and competence comparable to that of doctors holding the specialist doctors' qualifications which, in the case of Spain, are referred to in Articles 5(3) and 7(2)".

WHEREAS THE COORDINATION REFERRED TO ABOVE WAS NOT INTENDED TO HARMONIZE ALL THE PROVISIONS OF THE MEMBER STATES ON THE TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS AND IT IS NEVERTHELESS APPROPRIATE TO PROCEED WITH THE MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF DIPLOMAS , CERTIFICATES AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS AS A SPECIALIST WHICH ARE NOT COMMON TO ALL THE MEMBER STATES , WITHOUT HOWEVER EXCLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF SUBSEQUENT HARMONIZATION IN THIS FIELD ; WHEREAS IT WAS CONSIDERED IN THIS CONNECTION THAT RECOGNITION OF DIPLOMAS , CERTIFICATES AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS AS A SPECIALIST MUST BE RESTRICTED TO THOSE MEMBER STATES WHERE SUCH SPECIALIZATION IS KNOWN ;