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1994/0299(COD) Lawyers: practice of the profession on a permanent basis

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead JURI FONTAINE Nicole (icon: PPE PPE)
Former Responsible Committee JURI FONTAINE Nicole (icon: PPE PPE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
EC before Amsterdam E 049, EC before Amsterdam E 057-p1/2

Events

1998/03/14
   Final act published in Official Journal
Documents
Directive 1998/5
OJ L 077 14.03.1998, p. 0036
1998/02/16
   CSL - Final act signed
1998/02/16
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
1997/12/15
   CSL - Act approved by Council, 2nd reading
1997/12/15
   CSL - Council Meeting
1997/11/19
   EP - Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading
Documents
OJ C 371 08.12.1997, p. 0044-0059
T4-0548/1997
1997/11/19
   EP - Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
Documents
T4-0548/1997
1997/11/18
   EP - Debate in Parliament
Details

Noting that most of the amendments adopted at first reading had been taken over by the Council, the rapporteur invited Parliament to approve the common position as presented so that the legal profession could move further toward its opening up within Europe. Commissioner Monti was keen to stress that this had been an exemplary case of cooperation between the institutions. He therefore guaranteed that the Commission would pay careful attention to the correct implementation of the directive.

Documents
Debate in Parliament
1997/10/27
   EP - Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading
Documents
A4-0337/1997
OJ C 358 24.11.1997, p. 0004
1997/10/27
   EP - Vote in committee, 2nd reading
1997/10/26
   EP - Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading
Documents
A4-0337/1997
1997/09/18
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
1997/09/03
   EC - Commission communication on Council's position
Documents
EUR-Lex
SEC(1997)1206
1997/07/24
   CSL - Council position
Documents
08423/1/1997
OJ C 297 29.09.1997, p. 0006
1997/07/24
   CSL - Council Meeting
1997/07/23
   CSL - Council position published
Documents
08423/1/1997
1997/05/21
   CSL - Council Meeting
1996/09/24
   EC - Modified legislative proposal
Documents
EUR-Lex
OJ C 355 25.11.1996, p. 0019
COM(1996)0446
1996/09/23
   EC - Modified legislative proposal published
Documents
EUR-Lex
COM(1996)0446
1996/06/19
   EP - Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
OJ C 198 08.07.1996, p. 0068-0085
T4-0338/1996
1996/06/19
   EP - Decision by Parliament, 1st reading
Documents
T4-0338/1996
1996/06/18
   EP - Debate in Parliament
Details

The rapporteur, Mrs Fontaine (EPP, F), said that the ultimate objective of the directive aimed at facilitating the practice of the profession of lawyer was to compensate for the inadequacies of the general directive adopted in 1989, since in the course of the four years in which this directive had been in force only one significant case had been recorded of non home-country lawyers being given freedom to practise, and this had been in Luxembourg. Mrs Fontaine referred to the two criteria on which the amended directive would be based: objective assessment by the profession, and respect for the spirit and the letter of the Treaty as clarified by the recent legal precedent set by the Gebhard ruling. Among the measures featuring in the proposal the rapporteur referred in particular to the withdrawal of the aptitude test for those wishing to join the Bar in the host country and the opportunity for non-national lawyers to practise for an unlimited period under their home-country professional title, subject to the same professional rules and code of ethics of the host country. Finally, Mrs Fontaine pointed out that the new freedom that the directive would give to the profession of lawyer was essential if European legal practices were to compete with the major law firms operating outside the Community. Commissioner Monti declared that the Commission could accept the main amendments, including Amendment No 10 on the abolition of the five years of experience required before being allowed to practise under the home-country professional title and Amendment No 24 on the aptitude test. This only left the secondary amendments that concerned matters of principle, namely Amendments Nos 7 and 9 (exclusion of lawyers holding ministerial office) and Amendments Nos 12 and 21 (obligation on the host country to allow exemption from the requirement to join the social security scheme). As regards the eight supplementary amendments, Mr Monti said that he could not accept them if they were incompatible with those that had been submitted by the Legal Affairs Committee: this was the case with Amendments Nos 29 to 33. In conclusion, the Commissioner cited some examples of the professional rules that had to be respected, namely the ban in certain Member States on operating two legal practices in their territory and the ban on certain activities that were detrimental to the independence of lawyers and to professional confidentiality; finally, he stressed the important links between market uniformity and the directive in question.

Documents
Debate in Parliament
1996/04/24
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
A4-0146/1996
OJ C 152 27.05.1996, p. 0005
1996/04/24
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading
1996/04/23
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
Documents
A4-0146/1996
1995/07/05
   ESC - Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report
Details

The ESC endorsed these goals and agreed in principle with the proposal as a whole, subject to the reservations expressed below. It pointed out that the Commission’s proposal for a directive differed in essential points from the CCBE proposal in that it: a) set a time limit on the right of establishment under the home-country professional title, and b) generally dispensed with an aptitude test for lawyers wishing to be fully integrated in the host Member State (Article 10(1)). The ESC wholly shared the concerns expressed in the Sutherland Report regarding the whole system of justice in the EU.

Documents
CES0799/1995
OJ C 256 02.10.1995, p. 0014
1995/04/07
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading
1994/12/21
   EC - Legislative proposal
Documents
EUR-Lex
OJ C 128 24.05.1995, p. 0006
COM(1994)0572
1994/12/20
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Documents
EUR-Lex
COM(1994)0572
1994/07/26
   EP - FONTAINE Nicole (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in JURI
1994/07/26
   EP - FONTAINE Nicole (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in JURI

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  • date: 1996-09-24T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=1996&nu_doc=446 title: EUR-Lex url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1996:355:TOC title: OJ C 355 25.11.1996, p. 0019 title: COM(1996)0446 summary: type: Modified legislative proposal body: EC
  • date: 1997-07-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=ADV&RESULTSET=1&DOC_ID=8423%2F97&DOC_LANCD=EN&ROWSPP=25&NRROWS=500&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC title: 08423/1/1997 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1997:297:TOC title: OJ C 297 29.09.1997, p. 0006 summary: type: Council position body: CSL
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  • date: 1997-10-24T00:00:00 docs: title: PE224.234/AM type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
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  • date: 1996-04-24T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A4-1996-146&language=EN title: A4-0146/1996
  • date: 1996-06-18T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=19960618&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament summary: The rapporteur, Mrs Fontaine (EPP, F), said that the ultimate objective of the directive aimed at facilitating the practice of the profession of lawyer was to compensate for the inadequacies of the general directive adopted in 1989, since in the course of the four years in which this directive had been in force only one significant case had been recorded of non home-country lawyers being given freedom to practise, and this had been in Luxembourg. Mrs Fontaine referred to the two criteria on which the amended directive would be based: objective assessment by the profession, and respect for the spirit and the letter of the Treaty as clarified by the recent legal precedent set by the Gebhard ruling. Among the measures featuring in the proposal the rapporteur referred in particular to the withdrawal of the aptitude test for those wishing to join the Bar in the host country and the opportunity for non-national lawyers to practise for an unlimited period under their home-country professional title, subject to the same professional rules and code of ethics of the host country. Finally, Mrs Fontaine pointed out that the new freedom that the directive would give to the profession of lawyer was essential if European legal practices were to compete with the major law firms operating outside the Community. Commissioner Monti declared that the Commission could accept the main amendments, including Amendment No 10 on the abolition of the five years of experience required before being allowed to practise under the home-country professional title and Amendment No 24 on the aptitude test. This only left the secondary amendments that concerned matters of principle, namely Amendments Nos 7 and 9 (exclusion of lawyers holding ministerial office) and Amendments Nos 12 and 21 (obligation on the host country to allow exemption from the requirement to join the social security scheme). As regards the eight supplementary amendments, Mr Monti said that he could not accept them if they were incompatible with those that had been submitted by the Legal Affairs Committee: this was the case with Amendments Nos 29 to 33. In conclusion, the Commissioner cited some examples of the professional rules that had to be respected, namely the ban in certain Member States on operating two legal practices in their territory and the ban on certain activities that were detrimental to the independence of lawyers and to professional confidentiality; finally, he stressed the important links between market uniformity and the directive in question.
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  • date: 1997-11-18T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=19971118&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament summary: Noting that most of the amendments adopted at first reading had been taken over by the Council, the rapporteur invited Parliament to approve the common position as presented so that the legal profession could move further toward its opening up within Europe. Commissioner Monti was keen to stress that this had been an exemplary case of cooperation between the institutions. He therefore guaranteed that the Commission would pay careful attention to the correct implementation of the directive.
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