Legal Framework & Background

The Lisbon Recognition Convention (The Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region), 1997 (ETS No. 165)

• Explanatory Report to the Lisbon Convention
• List of Ratifying States

 

Documents adopted by the Lisbon Recognition Convention Committee

 

• Revised Code of Good Practice in the Provision of Transnational Education [PDF], June 2007
• (version française) [PDF]
 
• The Diploma Supplement [PDF], June 2007
• (version française) [PDF]
 
• Joint ENIC/NARIC Charter of Activities and Services [PDF], June 2004
 
• Recommendation on the Recognition of Joint Degrees [PDF], June 2004
• Explanatory Memorandum [PDF]
 
• Recommendation on Criteria and Procedures for the Assessment of Foreign Qualifications and Explanatory Memorandum [PDF], 2001, revised 2010
 
• Code of Good Practice in the Provision of Transnational Education, 2001
• Explanatory Memorandum
 
• Recommendation on International Access Qualifications, 1999

 

Documents adopted by the Joint ENIC-NARIC Networks

• Code of Good Practice in the Provision of Information on Recognition, June 2004

 

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European Convention on the General Equivalence of Periods of University Study, 1990 (ETS No. 138)

 

UNESCO Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees concerning Higher Education in the States belonging to the Europe Region, 1979 (UN Treaty Series No. 20966)

 

Earlier conventions and other instruments

• European Agreement on Continued Payment of Scholarships to Students Studying Abroad, 1969 (ETS No. 069)
 
• Protocol to the European Convention on the Equivalence of Diplomas leading to Admission to Universities, 1964 (ETS No. 049)
 
• European Convention on the Academic Recognition of University Qualifications, 1959 (ETS No. 032)
 
• European Convention on the Equivalence of Periods of University Study, 1956 (ETS No. 021)
 
• European Convention on the Equivalence of Diplomas leading to Admission to Universities, 1953 (ETS No. 015)

 

Policies and Practices: Recognition and Non-European Countries

Please see the Council of Europe's Treaty Office Web site for a complete listing of conventions with their texts and explanatory reports (in French, German, Italian and Russian).