The Commission sent a letter of notification to Portugal and seven other Member States for failing to transpose Directive (EU) 2024/782 on the recognition of professional qualifications in the health sector into national law.

The directive in question updates the minimum training requirements for general care nurses, dentists, and pharmacists to reflect generally recognised scientific and technical progress.

The updates, according to a press release, introduce or develop at EU level training requirements in areas such as e-health, digital technologies, immunology, regenerative medicine, dentistry, biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, genetics, and pharmacogenomics.

To date, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Austria, and Portugal have not notified the Commission of measures to fully transpose the new rules into national law.

The member states in question have two months to respond.