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Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (Text with EEA relevance)

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2.Master craftsman sector (Mester/Meister/Maître), which represents education and training courses concerning skills not covered by Title III, Chapter II, of this Directive.U.K.

Training for the following:

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in Germany:

  • optician (Augenoptiker),

  • dental technician (Zahntechniker),

  • [F2orthopaedic technician (Orthopädietechniker),]

  • hearing-aid maker (Hörgeräte-Akustiker),

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  • orthopaedic bootmaker (Orthopädieschuhmacher);

in Luxembourg:

  • dispensing optician (opticien),

  • dental technician (mécanicien dentaire),

  • hearing-aid maker (audioprothésiste),

  • orthopaedic technician/surgical truss maker (mécanicien orthopédiste/bandagiste),

  • orthopaedic bootmaker (orthopédiste-cordonnier),

these courses are of a total duration of 14 years, including at least five years' training followed within a structured training framework, partly received in the workplace and partly provided by the vocational training establishment, and culminating in an examination which must be passed in order to be able to practise any activity considered as skilled, either independently or as an employee with a comparable level of responsibility;

in Austria:

  • surgical truss maker (Bandagist),

  • corset maker (Miederwarenerzeuger),

  • optician (Optiker),

  • orthopaedic shoemaker (Orthopädieschuhmacher),

  • orthopaedic technician (Orthopädietechniker),

  • dental technician (Zahntechniker),

  • gardener (Gärtner),

which represent education and training of a total duration of at least 14 years, including at least five years' training within a structured training framework, divided into apprenticeship of at least three years' duration, comprising training received partly in the workplace and partly provided by a vocational training establishment, and a period of professional practice and training of at least two years' duration culminating in a mastership examination conferring the rights to exercise the profession, to train apprentices and to use the title ‘Meister’;

training for master craftsmen in the field of agriculture and forestry, namely:

  • master in agriculture (Meister in der Landwirtschaft),

  • master in rural home economics (Meister in der ländlichen Hauswirtschaft),

  • master in horticulture (Meister im Gartenbau),

  • master in market gardening (Meister im Feldgemüsebau),

  • master in pomology and fruit-processing (Meister im Obstbau und in der Obstverwertung),

  • master in viniculture and wine-production (Meister im Weinbau und in der Kellerwirtschaft),

  • master in dairy farming (Meister in der Molkerei- und Käsereiwirtschaft),

  • master in horse husbandry (Meister in der Pferdewirtschaft),

  • master in fishery (Meister in der Fischereiwirtschaft),

  • master in poultry farming (Meister in der Geflügelwirtschaft),

  • master in apiculture (Meister in der Bienenwirtschaft),

  • master in forestry (Meister in der Forstwirtschaft),

  • master in forestry plantation and forest management (Meister in der Forstgarten- und Forstpflegewirtschaft),

  • master in agricultural warehousing (Meister in der landwirtschaftlichen Lagerhaltung),

which represent education and training of a total duration of at least 15 years, including at least six years' training followed within a structured training framework divided into an apprenticeship of at least three years' duration, comprising training partly received in the business and partly provided by a vocational training establishment, and a period of three years of professional practice culminating in a mastership examination relating to the profession and conferring the rights to train aprentices and to use the title ‘Meister’;

in Poland:

  • teacher for practical vocational training (Nauczyciel praktycznej nauki zawodu),

which represents education of a duration of:

(i)

eight years of elementary education and five years of vocational secondary education or equivalent secondary education in a relevant field followed by the course in pedagogy of a total duration of at least 150 hours, the course in work safety and work hygiene, and two years of professional experience in the profession one is going to teach; or

(ii)

eight years of elementary education and five years of vocational secondary education and diploma of graduation from a post-secondary pedagogical technical school; or

(iii)

eight years of elementary education and two to three years of basic vocational secondary education and at least three years of professional experience certified by a degree of master in the particular profession followed by a course in pedagogy of a total duration of at least 150 hours;

in Slovakia:

  • master in vocational education (majster odbornej výchovy),

which represents education of a total duration of at least 12 years, comprising eight years of basic education, four years of vocational education (complete vocational secondary education and/or apprenticeship in the relevant (similar) vocational training or apprenticeship course), professional experience of a total duration of at least three years in the field of the person's completed education or apprenticeship and supplementary pedagogical study at the faculty of pedagogy or at the technical universities, or complete secondary education and apprenticeship in the relevant (similar) vocational training or apprenticeship course, professional experience of a total duration of at least three years in the field of the person's completed education or apprenticeship, and additional study of pedagogy at the faculty of pedagogy, or by 1 September 2005 specialised education in the field of special pedagogy provided for in the methodology centres for masters in vocational education at the special schools without supplementary pedagogical study.

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