Ordinance
on Vocational and Professional Education and Training
(Vocational and Professional Education and Training Ordinance, VPETO)

(Art. 1 VPETA)

¹ Co­oper­a­tion between the Con­fed­er­a­tion, the Can­tons and pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions in the area of up­per-sec­ond­ary level vo­ca­tion­al edu­ca­tion and train­ing (VET) and ter­tiary-level pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion en­sures that learners re­ceive high-level com­pet­ences that are com­par­able throughout Switzer­land and cor­res­pond to the needs of the la­bour mar­ket.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion gen­er­ally works with na­tion­al pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions that carry out activ­it­ies all over Switzer­land. If no such pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tion ex­ists for a giv­en eco­nom­ic branch, then the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies shall work with:

a.

or­gan­isa­tions that are in­volved in a sim­il­ar eco­nom­ic branch; or

b.

or­gan­isa­tions that are in­volved in a cor­res­pond­ing eco­nom­ic branch at re­gion­al level as well as with the Can­tons con­cerned.