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European Commission's Internal Market Information System goes live

22 February 2008

The European Commission's Internal Market Information System, IMINet went live on 22nd February 2008.

The IMI system is an internet based tool to facilitate information exchange between competent authorities across the EEA. The system is a databse that allows any competent authority to securely request and respond to information from another competent authority elsewhere in the EEA.

IMI is currently in a 'pilot' phase. It is being used by the competent authorities of four regulated professions across the EEA (doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists and accountants) to fulfil the information exchange obligations of the Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications (2005/36/EC). In due course other professions within the scope of this Directive will also be able to use IMI.

In 2009 the IMI system will be further rolled out to encompass other professions and services in order to fulfil the information exchange requirements of the Services Directive (2006/123/EC).

See the Links page for access to the IMINet home page.