20It follows that, as rightly pointed out by the Advocate General in points 40 to 43 of his Opinion, the expression ‘the profession in question’, employed in Article 3(a) of the Directive, must be construed as covering professions which, in the Member State of origin and the host Member State, are identical or analogous or, in some cases, simply equivalent in terms of the activities they cover. This interpretation is corroborated by the second indent of Article 4(1)(b) of the Directive. In the cases to which that provision refers, the competent national authorities are required to take account of each of the activities covered by the profession in question in both Member States concerned, in order to determine whether it is ‘the profession in question’ and, if so, whether one of the compensatory measures provided for by that provision should be applied. That means that, although the Directive treats a regulated profession as a whole, it nevertheless recognises that there are, in reality, separate professional activities and corresponding education and training. It follows that a case-by-case approach, tailored to each of the professional activities covered by a regulated profession, is not contrary to or beyond the scope of the general scheme of the Directive.
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