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

(Art. 68 VPETA)

¹ SERI or a third party will re­cog­nise a for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion as equi­val­ent to a cor­res­pond­ing Swiss qual­i­fic­a­tion for a reg­u­lated oc­cu­pa­tion or pro­fes­sion if the fol­low­ing cri­ter­ia are met:

a.

same level of train­ing;

b.

same dur­a­tion of train­ing;

c.

com­par­able train­ing con­tent;

d.

the for­eign train­ing pro­gramme cov­ers both the­or­et­ic­al and prac­tic­al as­pects or con­sid­er­able work ex­per­i­ence is in­volved.

² If the for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion au­thor­ises the hold­er to carry out the giv­en oc­cu­pa­tion or pro­fes­sion in the coun­try of is­su­ance but the cri­ter­ia in para­graph 1 above are not met, SERI or a third party, if ne­ces­sary in co­oper­a­tion with ex­perts, shall de­cide on meas­ures to be taken to com­pensate for the dif­fer­ence between the for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion and the cor­res­pond­ing Swiss qual­i­fic­a­tion (com­pens­at­ory meas­ures), namely in the form of an aptitude test or a spe­cial ad­apt­a­tion course. If com­par­is­on shows that the train­ing ob­tained in the for­eign coun­try is largely sim­il­ar to what the per­son would have ob­tained in Switzer­land, then there is no need for such com­pens­at­ory meas­ures to be taken.

³ The costs for com­pens­at­ory meas­ures are paid by the hold­er of the for­eign qual­i­fic­a­tion.