The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) Regulations 2002

PART 2 EVIDENCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

6.  The education and training of which the holder possesses evidence must, in every case to which this paragraph applies, have been such as to have prepared the holder for the pursuit of the profession.

7.  Evidence of education and training satisfies this paragraph if it has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State and it shows that the holder has successfully completed a post-secondary course of the kind described in paragraph 14.

8.  Evidence of education and training satisfies this paragraph if it has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State and it attests to one of the courses of regulated education and training listed in Schedule 5.

9.  Subject to paragraph 10, evidence of education and training satisfies this paragraph if—

(a) it has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State on the completion of education and training in the Community; and

(b) it is recognised in that relevant State as being of an equivalent level to evidence of education and training constituting either a First General System Diploma or a Second General System Diploma or which satisfies paragraph 7 or 8.

10.  Paragraph 9 only applies if the recognition given to the evidence of education and training by the relevant State has been notified to the other relevant States and to the European Commission.

11.  Evidence of education and training satisfies this paragraph if it has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State and either—

(a) it shows that the holder, having followed a secondary course of a technical or vocational nature has, where necessary, completed either—

(i) a course of education and training such as is described in paragraph 15, or

(ii) the probationary or professional practice which is integral to the secondary course; or

(b) it shows that the holder, having followed a secondary course other than a course of a technical or vocational nature has completed either—

(i) a course of education and training such as is described in paragraph 15 and, where appropriate, the professional training which may be required in addition to that course, or

(ii) has completed the probationary or professional practice which is integral to the secondary course.

12.  Subject to paragraph 13, evidence of education and training satisfies this paragraph if—

(a) it has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State on the completion of education and training in the Community; and

(b) it is recognised in that relevant State as being of an equivalent level to evidence of education and training which satisfies paragraph 11.

13.  Paragraph 12 only applies if the recognition given to the evidence of education and training by the relevant State has been notified to the other relevant States and to the European Commission.

14.  A post-secondary course of the kind referred to in paragraph 7 will be one—

(a) which, if pursued full-time, is of at least one year’s duration or, if pursued part-time, is of equivalent duration; and

(b) one of the conditions of entry of which is, as a general rule, the successful completion of the secondary course required to obtain entry to university or higher education,

but will not be a course of three or more years' duration if pursued full-time, or of an equivalent duration if pursued part-time, completed at a university or establishment of higher education or another establishment of similar level.

15.  A course of education and training of the kind referred to in paragraph 11 will be provided either—

(a) at an educational or training establishment; or

(b) on the job; or

(c) in a combination of (a) and (b)

but will not be a course of the kind evidenced by a First or Second General System Diploma.