Only seven professions currently benefit from automatic recognition of professional qualifications in the European Union.

Omissions

• The seven professions with automatic recognition operate under the sectoral system of Directive 2005/36/EC; the vast majority of the roughly 800+ regulated professions in the EU fall under the general system of recognition, where recognition is assessed case by case rather than automatically.
• Automatic recognition is a specific legal regime, not a statement about the total number of regulated professions; the framing 'only seven' can understate that a European Professional Card (EPC) procedure covers five of these professions.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Recognition of professional qualifications in practiceIn the EU there is a system of automatic recognition of professional qualifications for seven sectoral professions: nurses, midwives, doctors, dentists, pharmacists, architects and veterinary surgeons.
• SecondaryEuropean Parliamentary Research Service (EP Think Tank) — Recognition of professional qualificationsThe directive provides for automatic mutual recognition of qualifications for the following seven out of a total of 800 professions: doctor, ...