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

(Art. 60 VPETA)⁴⁰

¹ Re­quests to make a VPET fund man­dat­ory may be sub­mit­ted by:

a.

pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions whose activ­it­ies are car­ried out at na­tion­al level, for the whole of Switzer­land and for all com­pan­ies in a giv­en eco­nom­ic branch; or

b.

pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions whose activ­it­ies are car­ried out at re­gion­al level for the com­pan­ies in the giv­en eco­nom­ic branch in the cor­res­pond­ing re­gion.

² The re­quest shall be sent to SERI in writ­ing and shall in­clude the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

meas­ures to be en­cour­aged;

b.

how con­tri­bu­tions to the fund shall be ob­tained;

c.

name of the branch;

d.

if ne­ces­sary, re­gion­al bound­ar­ies;

e.

dis­tinc­tion between the ser­vices to be rendered by the fund in ques­tion com­pared to oth­er VPET funds.

³ The pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tion is deemed to have its own train­ing in­sti­tu­tions for the pur­poses of Art­icle 60 para­graph 4 let­ter b VPETA when it dir­ectly or in­dir­ectly of­fers VET, pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion and/or CET courses in the eco­nom­ic branch.

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