When the EBPS initially started the European Register, European surgeons were invited to complete an application form to the Board for inspection.
Once the details had been verified by the Board, the successful surgeons were placed on the European List of Paediatric Surgeons, and paid a fee of £25.00 each. For this small fee they received an official certificate and their name was placed on the Register.
......Austrian Surgeons on the 22nd October 1996, and each country (Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, UK, Norway, Italy, France, Portugal and Spain) was added until the completion of the Register in 1998.
A decision was made by the European Board that any future entries to the Register would be by Examination only, and the first Examination for acceptance to the European Board of Paediatric Surgery was held in Paris in October 1999.
....were nominated to the Board for inclusion on the Register at the next board Meeting (January 2000) and the successful candidates received their Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Paediatric Surgery.
However, during 1998-99, associated European countries (Turkey, Croatia, Hungary and Poland) were offered the opportunity to apply for registration without examination (fully qualified surgeons only). As from 2000, the only way to be entered on to the European Register was by Examination.
The European Examination has been held annually since 1999, and biannually in 2004.