L 253/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 15.9.98 COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 98/63/EC of 3 September 1998 amending Council Directive 93/16/EEC to facilitate the free movement of doctors and the mutual recognition of their diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 49, Article 57(1) and (2), first and third sentences, and Article 66 thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 93/16/EEC of 5 April 1993 to facilitate the free movement of doctors and the mutual recognition of their diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications ('), as last amended by Commission Directive 98/21/EC (%), and in particular Article 44a thereof, Whereas the United Kingdom has made a reasoned request for the designations of neurological surgery, general (internal) medicine, orthopaedics, pathological anatomy and psychiatry to be amended for that Member State in the list of specialised medicine common to all Member States; Whereas Luxembourg has made a reasoned request for the designations of clinical biology, gastro-enterological surgery, nuclear medicine, maxillo-facial surgery, and dental, oral and maxillo-facial surgery to be included for that Member State in the list of specialised medicine peculiar to two or more Member States; Whereas Greece has made a reasoned request for the designation of radiotherapy to be amended for that Member State in the list of specialised medicine peculiar to two or more Member States; Whereas the United Kingdom has made a reasoned request for the designations of microbiology-bacteriology, thoracic surgery, cardiology, venereology, diagnostic radi- ology, radiotherapy, geriatrics, renal diseases, communic- able diseases, and community medicine to be amended for that Member State in the list of specialised medicine peculiar to two or more Member States; Whereas Greece has made a reasoned request for the designations of vascular surgery and community medicine to be included for that Member State in the list of special- ised medicine peculiar to two or more Member States; Whereas Belgium, Ireland and the United Kingdom have made reasoned requests for accident and emergency medicine to be included for those Member States in the () OJ L 165, 7. 7. 1993, p. 1. OJ L 119, 22. 4. 1998, p. 15. list of specialised medicine peculiar to two or more Member States; Whereas Denmark, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom have made reasoned requests for clinical neurophysiology to be included for those Member States in the list of specialised medicine peculiar to two or more Member States; Whereas the measures laid down by this Directive conform with the opinion of the Committee of Senior Officials on Public Health set up by Council Decision 75/365/EEC (), HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 Article 5(3) of Directive 93/16/EEC is hereby amended as follows: (a) under ‘neurological surgery’, the designation ‘neuro- logical surgery’ appearing opposite ‘United Kingdom’ is replaced by the designation ‘neurosurgery’; (b) under ‘general (internal) medicine’, the designation ‘general medicine’ appearing opposite ‘United King- dom’ is replaced by the designation ‘general (internal) medicine’; (c) under ‘orthopaedics’, the designation ‘orthopaedic surgery’ appearing opposite ‘United Kingdom’ is replaced by the designation ‘trauma and orthopaedic surgery’; (d) under ‘pathological anatomy’, the designation ‘morbid anatomy and histopathology’ appearing opposite ‘United Kingdom’ is replaced by the designation ‘histopathology’; (¢) under ‘psychiatry’, the designation ‘psychiatry’ appearing opposite ‘United Kingdom’ is replaced by the designation ‘general psychiatry’. Article 2 Article 7(2) of Directive 93/16/EEC is hereby amended as follows: (@) under ‘clinical biology’, the following is added: ‘Luxembourg: biologie clinique’; () OJ L 167, 30. 6. 1975, p. 19.