In 17.05.2023, the AdC adopted a Follow-up of the AdC’s Action Plan, justified and motivated by relevant recent developments, occurring with the adoption of Law No. 12/2023, which amends the framework-laws applicable to public professional associations and professional societies (Law No. 2/2013 and Law No. 53/2015) in line with key proposals from the AdC’s Action Plan.
Several dispositions of Law No. 12/2023 are in line with the following key proposals from the AdC’s Action Plan: (i) separation of regulatory and representative functions in public professional associations; (ii) reevaluation of reserved activities, with the purpose of altering or revoking those that are inappropriate, unnecessary or disproportionate; (iii) alteration of characteristics of professional internships (object, duration, evaluation model and associated costs) towards their proportionality; (iv) reduction of restrictions on the offer of multidisciplinary activities by professional societies; (v) elimination of restrictions on the ownership and on the management of professional societies; (vi) elimination of the possibility for the statutes of public professional associations to derogate the principles of the framework-laws in matters of access to, and the exercise of, self-regulated liberal professions; (vii) the need to amend the statutes of all public professional associations and other laws/regulations, in matters of access to, and exercise of, self-regulated liberal professions.
In the context of Law No. 12/2023, the need for the Parliament to amend the statutes of all public professional associations already created and other laws, in matters of access to, and exercise of, self-regulated liberal professions, creates a window of opportunity for the public decision-maker to implement other key-proposals from the AdC’s Action Plan.