30Recognition is automatic and unconditional in that Member States are obliged to accept the equivalence of certain diplomas and cannot require the persons concerned to comply with requirements other than those laid down by the relevant directives (see Case C-238/98 Hocsman [2000] ECR I-6623, paragraph 33). It is underpinned by the Member States' mutual trust in the adequacy of the medical diplomas awarded by other Member States, such trust being based on a training system the standards of which were determined by mutual agreement.
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