sentences:  Had the program been implemented, Université Laval would have been the first university institution in Quebec to offer a professional program in osteopathy as a manual therapy.There is no universal regulatory authority for the practice of "osteopathy" or "osteopathic medicine" within the European Union; it is on a country-by-country basis.The UK's General Osteopathic Council, a regulatory body set up under the country's Osteopaths Act 1993, has issued a position paper on European regulation of osteopathy.