Assistance Centre for the Recognition of Professional Qualifications

In Italy, the Assistance Centre for the Recognition of Professional Qualifications operates within the Department for European Affairs. 

This page provides information about:

• what does the Assistance Centre does
• how you can ask for assistance
• how to fill in the application form for information relating to the recognition of professional qualifications
  
  

What the Assistance Centre does

The Italian Assistance Centre provides to citizens and assistance centres of other EU Member States information on the recognition of professional qualifications for the purpose of establishment or temporary and occasional practice of a profession, as well as on the Italian legislation governing the professions and their practice and in particular on:

• the Italian authority to which you must apply to obtain recognition of your professional qualification if you want to practice the same profession on a permanent basis or temporarily and occasionally in Italy;
• the procedure for the recognition of your qualification or for the temporary and occasional practice of your profession;
• the professions subject to prior verification of professional qualification for the temporary and occasional practice;
• how to apply for the European Professional Card and for which professions;
• if a a profession is regulated in Italy or in another Member State;
• the legislation that applies to non-European citizens.

Furthermore, the Assistance Centre - in cooperation with the assistance centre of the State of origin, the competent authorities and the Point of Single Contact - provides information on any further requirements laid down by Italian law for the practice of a professional following recognition of the relevant professional qualification, as well as for temporary and occasional practice.

The Assistance Centre also provides information in English.

Warning 
Please consider that qualifications obtained abroad do not have legal value in Italy. To have them recognized you must apply for their recognition in several cases, e.g. participating in public competitions and training courses, registering in employment centres, applying for scholarships and other benefits.

For information on the recognition of educational qualifications obtained in another State, please contact the Ministry of Education and Merit or the Ministry of University and Research for academic qualifications.

For information on the recognition in another country of qualifications obtained in Italy, please contact the ENIC\NARIC Network.

How to ask for assistance?

If you need assistance, please use the Application form for information relating to the recognition of professional qualifications duly completed in all its fields and indicate whether you want to apply for recognition of your professional qualification for the right of establishment or  receive information to the temporary and occasional practice.

The form must be sent exclusively via email (no certified mail - PEC - nor mailboxes) to the following e-address: centroassistenzaqualifiche@affarieuropei.it

The Assistance Centre will provide you with a reply within 30 working days of receiving the form. If additions or clarifications are needed or your request is particularly complex and requires more time to be examined, the Centre will inform you about an extended deadline within 15 days.

EU Member States' Assistance Centres for the Recognition of Professional Qualifications are listed on the website of the European Commission.

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