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

¹ SERI shall pay a sub­sidy if:

a.

the per­son com­plet­ing the pre­par­at­ory course has his/her tax dom­i­cile in Switzer­land on the date of is­su­ance of the ex­am­in­a­tion re­port at­test­ing to the pass/fail score ob­tained on the fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion;

b.

the com­pleted pre­par­at­ory course:

1.

was in­cluded in the of­fi­cial list of pre­par­at­ory courses for fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tions un­der Art­icle 66g in the year in which the course began, and

2.

was at­ten­ded not longer than sev­en years pri­or to is­su­ance of the ex­am­in­a­tion re­port at­test­ing to the pass/fail score ob­tained on the fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion;

c.

the eli­gible course fees ex­ceed a total of CHF 1000;

d.

the pro­vider of the pre­par­at­ory course is­sues a cer­ti­fic­ate in­dic­at­ing that the per­son com­plet­ing the pre­par­at­ory course has paid the course fees and that this cer­ti­fic­ate has not already been sub­mit­ted in re­la­tion to an­oth­er ap­plic­a­tion or re­quest;

e.

a fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion was taken;

f.

the ap­plic­a­tion was sub­mit­ted with­in a peri­od of two years pri­or to is­su­ance of the ex­am­in­a­tion re­port at­test­ing to the pass/fail score ob­tained on the fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion.

² SERI shall only pay the sub­sidy to the per­son who com­pleted the pre­par­at­ory course.