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

(Art. 68 VPETA)

On re­quest, SERI or a third party (un­der Art. 67 VPETA) will com­pare a for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion with a cor­res­pond­ing Swiss vo­ca­tion­al or pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­fic­a­tion if:

a.

the for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion com­plies with na­tion­al leg­al or gov­ern­ment­al reg­u­la­tions and was is­sued by the cor­res­pond­ing au­thor­ity or in­sti­tu­tion of the coun­try of is­su­ance; and

b.

the hold­er of the for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion demon­strates pro­fi­ciency in an of­fi­cial lan­guage of the Con­fed­er­a­tion that is re­quired in or­der to work in the pro­fes­sion con­cerned in Switzer­land.