New Cabinet Regulations regarding professional qualifications, in which centralized professional qualification exams are taken (1.09.2011)
By 1st September 2011, new Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No.664 “The list of professional qualifications, in which the centralized professional qualification examinations are taken to obtain them” (approved on August 30, 2011) came into force. These Regulations include the list of qualifications (in total 62 professional qualifications), in which students have to pass relevant centralized professional qualification exam.
Students take centralized professional qualification examinations when graduating from vocational education and vocational secondary education programmes that correspond to the European Qualifications Framework level 4.
These Regulations were issued in accordance with the Vocational Education Law (1999), Article 29, 3rd paragraph.
The full text of the Cabinet Regulations (LV)
Source: Latvijas Vēstnesis
14.09.2011
