In order to make it easier for persons to take up and pursue activities as selfemployed persons, the Council shall, on a proposal from the Com mission and in cooperation with the European Parliament, acting unanimously during the first stage and by a qualified majority thereafter, issue directives for the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications.*
Chun gur fusa do dhaoine gabháil le gníomhaíochtaí agus iad a shaothrú mar oibrithe ar a gconlán féin, déanfaidh an Chomhairle, ar thogra ón gCoimisiún agus i gcomhar le Parlaimint na hEorpa, ag gniomhú di d'aontoil i rith na chéad chéime agus tri thromlach cáilithe ina dhiaidh sin, treoracha a eisiúint chun dioplómaí, teastais agus cruthúnais eile ar cháilíochtaí foirmiúla a aithint go frithpháirteach. *