Federal Act
on Vocational and Professional Education and Training
(Vocational and Professional Education and Training Act, VPETA)

¹ For each multi-year sub­sidy peri­od, the Fed­er­al As­sembly shall is­sue a simple Fed­er­al De­cree to ap­prove the fol­low­ing:

a.

the ex­pendit­ure lim­its for:

1.

the fixed sub­sidies paid to the Can­tons re­ferred to in Art­icle 53,

2.

the sub­sidies re­ferred to in Art­icle 56 for or­gan­ising fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tions, ad­vanced fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tions and study pro­grammes at pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions,

3.

the sub­sidies re­ferred to in Art­icle 56a to per­sons who com­plete a pre­par­at­ory course;

a^bis.²⁴

the de­tails of sub­sidy pay­ments to SFUVET un­der Art­icle 48 para­graph 2;

b.

the guar­an­teed budget for:

1.

sub­sidies re­ferred to in Art­icle 54 for pro­jects that seek to de­vel­op and im­prove the qual­ity of the VPET sys­tem,

2.

sub­sidies re­ferred to in Art­icle 55 for spe­cif­ic activ­it­ies that serve the pub­lic in­terest.

² As a guideline, the Con­fed­er­a­tion’s share of edu­ca­tion fund­ing should be one quarter of pub­lic ex­pendit­ure on the VPET sys­tem un­der this Act. No more than ten per cent of the Con­fed­er­a­tion’s share of the costs shall be al­loc­ated as a sub­sidy un­der Art­icles 54 and 55 for pro­jects and activ­it­ies.