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

(Art. 73 para. 2 VPETA)

¹ Qual­i­fic­a­tions awar­ded on com­ple­tion of up­per-sec­ond­ary level VET pro­grammes sub­ject to can­ton­al le­gis­la­tion shall be con­sidered fed­er­al if an in­ter­can­t­on­al agree­ment has been reached re­gard­ing said qual­i­fic­a­tions.

² The equi­val­ency of the qual­i­fic­a­tions men­tioned in para­graph 1 with qual­i­fic­a­tions sub­ject to new fed­er­al rules as well as the con­di­tions ap­ply­ing to the con­ver­sion of qual­i­fic­a­tions shall be es­tab­lished in cor­res­pond­ing VET or­din­ances.

³ Re­cog­ni­tion of courses of study and con­ver­sion of qual­i­fic­a­tions in fields that were pre­vi­ously sub­ject to in­ter­can­t­on­al le­gis­la­tion shall be handled by SERI on the basis of pre­vi­ous in­ter­can­t­on­al le­gis­la­tion un­til com­mence­ment of cor­res­pond­ing VET or­din­ances.

⁴ In the field of health care, re­cog­ni­tion of courses of study, con­ver­sion of Swiss qual­i­fic­a­tions and re­cog­ni­tion of for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tions shall be handled by the Swiss Red Cross un­til com­mence­ment of cor­res­pond­ing fed­er­al VET or­din­ances.