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Access to the Profession - Public

ACCREDITATION & VALIDATION - ACE report on Accreditation and Validation – 2009

Report of the Accreditation and Validation Work Group, which was set up to establish the processes by which Member States decide whether a qualification should be notified to the Commission the European Commission for listing in Annex V.7 of Directive 2005/36/EC on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications (the PQD).

ACCREDITATION - Summary of ACE and ENACA Survey on Accreditation of Architecture Programmes within Europe – 2016
BAUKULTUR: Geneva 2019

Getting the measure of Baukultur (4-5/11/19)

CONTINOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) - Guidelines – 2006

The ACE considers that CPD is a very important issue and intends to promote, at European level, the most efficient approaches to this subject. It recalls that it is an objective of the ACE Charter on CPD to ensure the introduction of a CPD System by all of its Member Organisations by 2010. This should permit all architects to undertake an annual and systematic course of CPD.  

EDUCATION - ACE Policy Position on matters arising from the application of the Bologna agreements – 2003
Education: Upskilling to deliver high-quality architecture for a beautiful, sustainable and inclusive environment
NEBC statement “Making the Renovation Wave a cultural project”
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DIRECTIVE (PQD) - ACE Response to the EU Commission Green Paper on “Modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive” - 2011
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DIRECTIVE (PQD) - ACE-ENACA Study on the modernisation of the PQD and impact on the architectural profession – 2014
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DIRECTIVE (PQD) - Joint Statement of the European Sectoral professions on Modernisation of the PQD - 7 November 2011

Joint Statement by ACE, Council of European Dentists (CED), European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), European Midwives Association (EMA), Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME). 

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DIRECTIVE (PQD) - Proposed amendments to the EU Parliament draft report on the Commission's legislative proposal - 2012
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DIRECTIVE (PQD) - ACE Position on the Commission's Public Consultation on the PQD - 2011
REGULATION - Cross-border services trade and regulation
REGULATION - Economic Impact of different regulatory approaches in the EU Member States
SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMEs) - ACE position on the Communication “An SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe”
UKRAINE - The Architects’ Council of Europe adopts a policy position on Solidarity with Ukraine

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