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ASPI System – situation as at 04/11/2007 up to Part 89/2007 of the Collection of Laws (Coll.) and 44/2007 of the Collection of International Treaties 
The contents and text of 208/2007 Coll. – the latest wording 

208/2007 Coll.

DECREE
of 7 August 2007

on details stipulated for an application of the law on recognition of further education outcomes

	The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports stipulates according to Sec. 25 Para 5 of Law No. 179/2006 Coll., on validation and recognition of outcomes of further education and on the change of some legal acts (the law on recognition of further education outcomes), (hereinafter referred to as “the Law”):

Sec. 1

Details of the contents, structure and manner of the keeping of the National Qualifications Framework

(To Sec. 6 of the Law)

	(1) Besides the data specified in the Law, the National Qualification Framework specifies additional data on partial qualifications:
 
a) the date of approval, amendment or cancellation of the qualification standard and the assessment standard of a given partial qualification;
 
b) the subject or subjects that had participated in preparation of the qualification or assessment standards of a given partial qualification or their amendment from the ranks of
1. professional chambers;
2. interest and occupational associations;
3. employers’ organizations;
4. specialist societies;
5. associations of legal persons carrying out activities of a school or an educational institution under the special legal regulation 1);
6. representatives of higher education institutions having a part in sector boards that were involved in preparation of the qualification or assessment standards of a given partial qualification or their amendment;
 
c) amount of the compensation for the holding of an examination validating acquirement of a given partial qualification.
 
	(2) Upon any inclusion of a detail or its amendment into the National Qualification Framework, the given detail shall be supplemented with a note stating the date of approval or coming into effect as well as the date of change in validity of the detail.
 
	(3) The National Qualification Framework is kept in a manner enabling to search and classify the data according to the data specified in Sec. 6 of the Law. The data included in the National Qualification Framework are stored on a technical medium once a week at least.
 
Sec. 2

Conditions and time limits for the inclusion of data regarding particular qualifications into the National Qualification Framework

(To Sec. 6 of the Law)

	(1) Information concerning the granting, prolongation of validity, termination or withdrawal of authorization as well as data of authorized persons and changes of these shall be included into the National Qualification Framework immediately after their submission by a competent authorizing body 2) to the National Institute of Technical and Vocational Education (Národní ústav odborného vzdělávání) in Prague.
 
	(2) Data and their amendments, except for data specified in Paragraph 1 and their amendments, shall be in included into the National Qualification Framework immediately after their approval by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
 
Sec. 3

Details concerning authorizations of natural and legal persons 

(To Sec. 10 and 11 of the Law)

	Fulfilment of requirements as regards the professional competence of an authorized person possessing authorization for a certain partial qualification shall be proved by the applicant for the grant of authorization in accordance with the relevant assessment standard of a given partial qualification:
 
a) by providing a document or a set of documents on the attainment of professional competence;
 
b) by validation of the professional competence through a process specified by the authorizing body in accordance with requirements stipulated in the assessment standard for a given partial qualification; or
 
c) by combination of ways stated under Letters a) and b).
 
Sec. 4

Form of the examination

(To Sec. 17 Para 1 and Sec. 18 Para 8 of the Law)

	Examinations validating the attainment of a concrete partial qualification shall be held in the form of:
 
a) written examination;
 
b) oral examination;
 
c) practical examination; or
 
d) combination of two or more forms stated under Letters a) through c).
 
Sec. 5

Requisites of an invitation to the examination

(To Sec. 17 Para 5 of the Law)

	Requisites of an invitation to the examination always include:
 
a) name or possibly names and the surname and a possible academic degree and scientific title of the applicant for taking an examination (hereinafter referred to as “the applicant”);
 
b) Applicant’s date of birth;
 
c) address of the applicant’s permanent stay or possibly another address indicated for the delivery of documents to the applicant;
 
d) name of a partial qualification the attainment of which is to be proved by the examination;
 
e) day, time and a venue of the examination;
 
f) amount of compensation for holding the examination; date and manner of payment for holding the examination.
 
Sec. 6

Amount of compensation for holding the examination

(To Sec. 17 Para 3 and 7 of the Law)

	(1) The amount of compensation for holding the examination validating attainment of a concrete partial qualification shall be the total of a flat rate compensation for necessary expenses of the authorized person or possibly members of the examination panel connected with material, space, technical, information, personal and administrative provision of the carrying-out of the examination and a reasonable remuneration for the authorized person or possibly members of the examination panel.
 
	(2) The amount of a flat rate compensation and the remuneration under Paragraph 1 for carrying-out an examination validating attainment of a concrete partial qualification is specified in the assessment standard of a respective partial qualification.
 
Sec. 7

Requisites and the design of the certificate form 

(To Sec. 19 Para 2 and 3 of the Law)

	(1) The certificate form shall contain requisites according to the certificate template stated in an attachment to this decree, including the birth number that shall be requested by the authorized person from the applicant prior to the issue of the certificate.
 
	(2) The certificate shall be equipped with a watermark, grey underprint with the small national coat of arms and linden leaves motif on both sides of the form.
 
	(3) The certificate shall be on a sheet or possibly a double leaf sheet with a size of 210 x 290 mm and a permissible tolerance of 3 mm.
 
Sec. 8

Details of the process of retaining counterparts of certificates issued and records relating to the course and results of an examination

(To Sec. 18 Para 12 and Sec. 19 Para 4 of the Law)

	(1) The authorizing body shall retain the counterpart of the certificate issued and sent by the authorized person for a period of 10 years, following the day on which the certificate was delivered to it, in its record office; after expiry of the said time period, the authorizing body shall store the given counterpart in its administrative archive, in which the counterpart shall be kept for a period of 45 years.
 
	(2) The authorizing body shall retain the record of the course and a result of the examination free of charge for a period of 10 years, following the day on which the record was delivered to it, in its record office.
 
	(3) The authorized person shall retain the counterpart of the certificate and the counterpart of the record of the course and a result of the examination for a period of 5 years, following the day of its issuance.
 
Sec. 9

Method used by legal persons executing activities of a school in reporting expenses connected with the carrying-out of final examinations, school-leaving examinations and graduations at a conservatory

[To Sec. 23 Letters e) and f) of the Law]

	(1) Indispensable expenses connected with the taking of final examinations, school-leaving examinations and graduations at a conservatory by persons that, in accordance with the law, have acquired partial qualifications which in their aggregate prove an attainment of all professional competencies stipulated according to the National Qualification Framework for a proper performance of all working activities within the scope of a certain profession and that, without being a pupil of a given school, are taking the above mentioned examinations at a secondary school or a conservatory under the special legal regulation 3) shall be as follows:
 
a) relevant parts of wages or salaries of employees and other personal expenses as per an employee or possibly other costs following from relations pertaining to the labour law the spending of whose was indispensable for securing the holding of a final or a school-leaving examination or graduation at a conservatory;
 
b) other non-investment costs connected with material and technical securing of the course of a final or a school-leaving examination or graduation at a conservatory, for example the cost of material used during a final or a school-leaving examination or graduation and the cost of compensation for expenses connected with the use of premises in which a final or a school-leaving examination or graduation were held, or compensation of expenses for the services used during the holding of a final or a school-leaving examination or graduation.
 
	(2) Quantifications of the costs mentioned in Paragraph 1 shall be submitted to the regional authorities by legal persons carrying out activities of schools included in the register of schools and educational institutions not established by the government or a registered church or a religious society authorized to establish church schools 4) within 30 days following the holding of an examination at the latest; the regional authority shall immediately submit an application for provision of funds from the state budget for the settlement of costs stated in Paragraph 1 to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
 
	(3) Quantification of the costs stated in Paragraph 1 shall be submitted by legal persons carrying out activities of schools included in the register of schools and educational institutions established by the government or a registered church or a religious society authorized to establish church schools 3) to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports within 30 days following the holding of an examination at the latest.
 
	(4) If the school concerned is not a school established by the government, a regional authority or an association of cities or municipalities, the headmaster, in case that he/she made the opportunity to take a final examination, a school-leaving examination or graduation at a conservatory dependent on the settlement of compensation in an amount set by him/her, shall reduce costs stipulated in Paragraph 1 by the amount of such a compensation.
 
Sec. 10

Effect
 
	This decree shall come into effect as on the day of its announcement.

Minister:
Mgr. Kuchtová, in her own hand

Attachment
Templates of forms

A) Specimen of a form of the certificate of the successful passing of an examination before an authorized natural person and attainment of partial qualification 
Picture 208-207a.pcx
 
Picture 208-207b.pcx
B) Specimen of a form of the certificate of the successful passing of an examination before an authorized legal person and attainment of partial qualification 
 
Picture 208-207c.pcx
 
Picture 208-207d.pcx
C) Specimen of a form of the certificate of the successful passing of an examination before an examination panel and attainment of partial qualification
 
Picture 208-207e.pcx
 
Picture 208-207f.pcx
 
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1) Law No. 561/2004 of the Collection of Laws (Coll.), on Pre-school, Basic, Secondary, Tertiary Professional and Other Education (the Education Act), as amended.
 
2) Sec. 2 Letter k) and the attachment to Law No. 179/2006 Coll., on validation and recognition of outcomes of further education and on the change of some legal acts (the law on recognition of further education outcomes), in the wording of Law No. 110/2007 Coll.
 
3) Sec. 113c of Law No. 561/2004 Coll., in the wording of Law No. 179/2006 Coll.
 
4) Sec. 7 Para 1 Letter e) of Law No. 3/2002 Coll., on freedom of religious confession and the position of churches and religious societies and on the changes of some legal acts (Law on churches and religious societies)