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

(Art. 19 para. 1 VPETA)

¹ Pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 1 para­graph 2 may re­quest that a VET or­din­ance be en­acted.

² The re­quest must be sub­mit­ted to SERI with a writ­ten state­ment of the reas­ons.

³ The par­ti­cip­a­tion of the Can­tons and pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions shall be re­quired in or­der for SERI to pre­pare and en­act such VET or­din­ances.

⁴ SERI shall en­sure that there is co­ordin­a­tion with and between the in­ter­ested parties and the Can­tons. If no agree­ment can be reached, then SERI shall de­cide on the basis of the over­all need for VET pro­grammes and any so­cial part­ner­ship-re­lated rules.