equivalency agreement
Equivalency agreements are such agreements that enable to the holders of diplomas and certificates issued in the signatory states to use the documents in the territory of the Czech Republic. These agreements also make the process of recognition easier. Conditions in equivalency agreements may vary in each state and do not apply to all types of documents of education.
The Czech republic is bound by agreements signed with Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, and Germany. Holders of Hungarian, Polish and Slovenian documents can use these document in accordance with the agreement without the need of submitting a document of recognition of foreign university education.
An equivalency agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany doesn't allow for the same procedure. Holders of diplomas issued by German universities need to apply for the recognition of foreign university education at the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (department of university education), or Ministry of Defense, or Ministry of the Interior. If the application meets all formal requirements, the competent recognition authority is obliged to meet the request and issue a certification of recognition.
Diplomas issued in Slovakia are automatically considered as equal to Czech diplomas.
Source of Law
- Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Federal Assembly (Skupština) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the mutual recognition of educational documents and documents relevant to academic degrees and titles issued in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Belgrade, 12 September 1989, No. 89/1991 Coll. of International Treaties) – applicable only to Slovenia.
- Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Republic of Hungary on the mutual recognition of educational documents and documents relevant to academic degrees and titles issued in the Republic and Hungary (Budapest, 6 May 2004, published under No. 92/2005 Coll. of International Treaties).
- Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Republic of Poland on the mutual recognition of educational documents and documents relevant to academic degrees and titles issued in the Republic of Poland (Prague, 16 January 2006, No. 104/2006 Coll. of International Treaties).
- Agreement (Czech only) concluded between the governments of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic on mutual recognition of educational documents issued in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Prague, 23 March 2001, No. 33/2001 Coll. of International Treaties),
- Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on the mutual recognition of higher education documents (Prague, 23 March 2007, No. 60/2008 Coll. of International Treaties).
- Details about the procedure of recognition of academic qualification in accordance with equivalency agreement can be found here
