21.7.82 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 21371 ~ (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 29 June 1982 on measures to facilitate the effective exercise of freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in respect of activities of self-employed persons in certain services incidental to transport and travel agencies (ISIC Group 718) and in storage and warehousing (ISIC Group 720) (82/470/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 49, 57 and 66 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas, pursuant to the Treaty, all discriminatory treatment based on nationality with regard to establishment and provision of services is prohibited as from the end of the transitional period; whereas the principle of such treatment based on nationality applies in particular to the right to join professional organizations where the professional activities of the person concerned necessarily involve the exercise of this right; Whereas, moreover, Article 57 of the Treaty provides that, in order to make it easier for persons to take up () OJ No 73, 23. 4. 1966, p. 1099/66. (3) OJ No 201, 5. 11. 1966, p. 3475/66. (3) O] No 17, 28. 1. 1967, p. 284/67. and pursue activities as self-employed persons, directives are to be issued for the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications and for the coordination of the provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States; Whereas, in the absence of mutual recognition of diplomas and of immediate coordination, it nevertheless appears desirable to facilitate the attainment of freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in respect of the activities falling within ISIC Groups 718 and 720 by the adoption of measures intended primarily to avoid causing exceptional difficulties for nationals of Member States in which the taking up of such activities is not subject to any conditions; Whereas, in order to prevent such difficulties arising, the main object of the measures should be to allow, as sufficient qualification for taking up the activities in question, excluding transport activities proper, in host Member States which have rules governing the taking up of such activities, the fact that the activities have been pursued in the country of provenance for a reasonable period of time, such period being, in cases where no previous training is required, sufficiently recent to ensure that the person concerned possesses professional knowledge equivalent to that required of the host country’s own nationals;