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

¹ SERI shall make par­tial pay­ment of the sub­sidy if:

a.

the Ap­plic­ant has his/her tax dom­i­cile in Switzer­land on the date when the ap­plic­a­tion is sub­mit­ted;

b.

a com­mit­ment with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 66d para­graph 1 let­ter b has been signed;

c.

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 no longer than two years be­fore the sub­sidy ap­plic­a­tion was sub­mit­ted;

d.

the eli­gible course fees per ap­plic­a­tion ex­ceed CHF 3500;

e.

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

f.

ac­cord­ing to the last leg­ally bind­ing tax as­sess­ment, the ap­plic­ant was re­quired to pay less than CHF 88 in dir­ect fed­er­al tax­a­tion.

² As soon as SERI re­ceives the ex­am­in­a­tion re­port at­test­ing to the pass/fail score ob­tained on the fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion as well as any oth­er at­test­a­tions, SERI shall is­sue a fi­nal ac­count and pay all re­main­ing amounts upon re­quest up to the up­per threshold.

³ These sub­sidy pay­ments shall be made ex­clus­ively to the course par­ti­cipant.

⁴ If SERI does not re­ceive the ex­am­in­a­tion re­port at­test­ing to the pass/fail score ob­tained on the fed­er­al pro­fes­sion­al ex­am­in­a­tion with­in the time­frame men­tioned in Art­icle 66d para­graph 1 let­ter b num­ber 2, then any sub­sidy amounts paid in ad­vance must be paid back. The pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990³⁴ on Fin­an­cial As­sist­ance and Sub­sidies shall ap­ply.