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Improving Mutual Recognition of Occupational Licences

From 2005-2008 we supported the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Skills Recognition Steering Committee and Skills Recognition Taskforce to implement a major COAG initiative to achieve full and effective mutual recognition of occupational licenses. 
 
This included providing:
Strategic advice on the development of COAG’s Skills Recognition initiative.
Research on mutual recognition, compliance and vocational education and training (VET) sector issues related to priority occupations.
Development of a methodology for achieving full and effective mutual recognition of industry licensing and the alignment of industry licensing systems with the national VTE system·
Assisting with the facilitation of Action Group and Working Group meetings. ·
Production of a range of research papers dealing with the mutual recognition of industry licensing and skills recognition matters.
Generally advice on mutual recognition and VET issues. 
 
The outcome of the initiative was a range of Ministerial Declarations that declare the equivalence of specified licensed occupations between jurisdictions.