European Communities (Second General System For The Recognition of Professional Education and Training) Regulations, 1996.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: 1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Second General System for the Recognition of Professional Education and Training) Regulations, 1996.
2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 21st day of May, 1996.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires —
"adaptation period" has the meaning assigned to it by Regulation 11;
"applicant" means a person who makes an application;
"application" means an application made pursuant to these Regulations and the Directive by a national of a Member State to a designated authority for authorisation to take up and pursue a regulated profession in the State;
"aptitude test" means a test that complies with Regulation 10;
"attestation of competence" means any evidence of qualifications —
( a ) attesting to education and training other than education and training constituting a diploma or certificate, or
( b ) awarded following an assessment of the personal qualities, aptitudes or knowledge which it is considered essential that the applicant have for the pursuit of a profession by an authority designated in accordance with the laws, regulations or administrative provisions of a Member State without proof of prior education and training being required;
"certificate" means —
( a ) evidence of education and training or any set of such evidence —
(i) that has been awarded by a competent authority in a Member State, designated in accordance with its own laws, regulations or administrative provisions,
(ii) (I) that shows that the holder, having followed a secondary course has subsequently completed either —
(A) a course of education or training (other than the courses referred to in the definition of "Regulation 2 diploma") at an educational or training establishment or on the job, or in combination at an education or training establishment and on the job, and complemented, where appropriate, by the probationary or professional practice required in addition to the secondary course, or
(B) the probationary or professional practice required in addition to the secondary course, or
(II) that shows that the holder, having followed a secondary course of a technical or vocational nature has completed, where necessary, either
(A) a course of education or training (other than the courses referred to in the definition of "Regulation 2 diploma") at an educational or training establishment or on the job, or in combination at an educational or training establishment and on the job, and complemented, where appropriate, by the probationary or professional practice required in addition to the secondary course of a technical or vocational nature, or
(B) the probationary or professional practice required in addition to this secondary course of a technical or vocational nature,
and
(iii) that shows that the holder has the professional qualifications required for the taking up or pursuit of a regulated profession in that Member State:
Provided that the education and training attested by this evidence was received mainly in the Community, or outside the Community at teaching establishments which provide education and training in accordance with the laws, regulations or administrative provisions of a Member State, or that the holder thereof has 2 years' professional experience certified by the Member State which recognised third-country evidence of education and training, or
( b ) evidence of education and training or any set of such evidence awarded by a competent authority in a Member State if it is awarded on the successful completion of education and training received in the Community and recognised by a competent authority in that Member State as being of an equivalent level to that of a certificate specified in paragraph (a) and if it confers the same rights in respect of the taking up and pursuit of a regulated profession in that Member State;
"competent authority" means, in relation to —
( a ) a Regulation 2 diploma or other certificate, document, or attestation of competence, or
( b ) a period of professional experience,
referred to in these Regulations, the person in a Member State authorised under the laws, regulations or administrative provisions of that State, to issue award or recognise that Regulation 2 diploma, certificate, document or attestation of competence, or to certify that period;
"corresponding profession", in relation to a regulated profession in the State that is the subject of an application, means a profession in another Member State which corresponds substantially to the first-mentioned profession;
"designated authority" means, as the context requires —