Recognition procedure for all regulated and non-regulated professions by area of competence (6) -Country — Year

*Short description With the Professional Qualifications Assessment Act (BQFG; in short: Recognition Act) persons who have obtained their professional qualifications abroad have a legal right to have their professional certificate examined for equivalence to a German reference profession and that they are recognised as a German professional qualification. As a result, recognition seekers and employers have uniform criteria for assessing foreign qualifications. The statistics on the BQFG provide data on developments in the field of professional recognition. The quality report provides information on methods and definitions as well as the quality of the results of a statistics. It is available for free download on the website of the Federal Statistical Office. Here you will find the quality report (usually in PDF format) for this statistics: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Methoden/Qualitaet/Qualitaetsberichte/ Education/introduction.html [link to the list of quality reports in PDF format (file size approx. 0.2 MB)] ___ *Literatur — Statistical Reports North Rhine-Westphalia Here you will find the statistical publications (usually in PDF format) for North Rhine-Westphalia: https://webshop.it.nrw.de/ssearch.php?kategorie=10504&prefix=B24 [Link to Webshop of IT.NRW, Statistics division]