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

¹ SERI shall main­tain a list of pre­par­at­ory courses for fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tions. This list shall be in­cluded in the Or­din­ance and pub­lished by ref­er­ence (Art. 5 para. 1 let. c of the Fed­er­al Act of 18 June 2004³⁶ on the Com­pil­a­tions of Fed­er­al Le­gis­la­tion and the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette). This list shall be ac­cess­ible in elec­tron­ic form³⁷. SERI shall up­date this list on an an­nu­al basis.

² Pro­viders wish­ing to have their pre­par­at­ory courses in­cluded in this list must sat­is­fy the fol­low­ing con­di­tions:

a.

their leg­al dom­i­cile must be in Switzer­land; and

b.

provide guar­an­tees that the im­posed ob­lig­a­tions (Art. 66i) have been met.

³ Pro­viders shall re­gister with SERI and provide the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion and sup­port­ing doc­u­ments.

⁴ SERI shall in­clude a pre­par­at­ory course in the list if the fol­low­ing pre­requis­ites have been met:

a.

the course takes place in Switzer­land;

b.

the course con­tent pre­pares stu­dents dir­ectly for a fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion and cov­ers all or part of the re­quired com­pet­ences.

⁵ In jus­ti­fied ex­cep­tion­al cases, in par­tic­u­lar when Switzer­land lacks a cor­res­pond­ing pre­par­at­ory course, then the list may in­clude a pre­par­at­ory course that does not take place in Switzer­land or a pre­par­at­ory course offered by a pro­vider whose leg­al dom­i­cile is out­side of Switzer­land.

⁶ A pre­par­at­ory course ap­pear­ing in the list must be con­firmed an­nu­ally by the course pro­vider in or­der to ap­pear on the list in the fol­low­ing year.