Mutual recognition of professional qualifications
Plimmer, Frances
The global marketplace for surveying activities is a reality. However, surveying education and qualifications remain within national boundaries. Since 1998, FIG has been working to investigate and develop a procedure whereby the professional qualifications in one country can be recognised in another country. Such recognition takes the form of accepting that professional qualifications gained in one country can be recognised in another country as equivalent to those available in another country and thus used to gain the local professional designation. Such a system of mutual recognition of professional qualifications is approved by the World Trade Organisation and recognised by FIG in its 2002 Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Publication 27). This paper outlines the principles which underlies the process of mutual recognition of professional qualifications and charts the external drivers and barriers which affect the development of the process of mutual recognition of professional qualifications, the alternative approaches to achieving the free movement of professionals across national boundaries, and the FIG approach and proposed regulations for implementation at the level of national associations. This paper represents the final report of Commission 22s Working Party 2.3 on Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications.
Event: XXX FIG Working Week and General Assembly : Strategic Integration of Surveying Services
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