List of Professions - Professional recognition

German

Sensitive professions are professions containing health and/or safety risks. These professions are subject to qualification verification even in case of temporary service provision.

Education, childcare and pedagogy

• Educational social work / social work / kindergarten teacher / after school care teacher- recognition of a diploma acquired in the EU (application)
• Home assistance - education and training facility – start of operation

• Teachers at Academic Secondary School – Recognition
• Teachers at General Compulsory Schools – Recognition
• Teachers at Part-time Vocational Schools – Recognition
• Teachers at VET Schools and Colleges - Recognition
• Teacher at an agricultural school - Recognition

Foresty and agriculture professions

• Agricultural professions - licence for vocational training institutions
• Agricultural training establishment - recognition

• Forest Assistant - Qualifications – Recognition - sensitive profession
• Forest Engineer - Qualifications – Recognition - sensitive profession
• Forest Warden - Forester - Qualifications – Recognition
• Forester - Qualifications – Recognition - sensitive profession
• Junior Forest Official - Qualifications – Recognition - sensitive profession

Healthcare professions

• Anaesthetic nursing - sensitive profession
• Assistant Nurses - Qualifications – Recognition

• Biomedical analysts - Declaration of Services - sensitive profession
• Biomedical analysts - Recognition - sensitive profession

• Dental Assistance - Qualifications – Recognition
• Dental Practitioners - Declaration of Temporary Services
• Dental Practitioners - Qualifications – Recognition
• Dieticians - Declaration of Services - sensitive profession
• Dieticians - Recognition - sensitive profession

• First-/Second-level Emergency Medical Technicians – Recognition

• Healthcare Psychologists/Clinical Psychologists – Recognition - sensitive profession
• Healthcare Psychologists/Clinical Psychologists - Temporary Services - sensitive profession
• Higher Medical-Technical Professions - Declaration of Services
• Higher Medical-Technical Professions – Recognition
• Hospital Hygiene - sensitive profession

• Intensive care - sensitive Profession
• Intensive paediatric care - sensitive profession

• Medical Assistant Professions - Qualifications – Recognition
• Medical Doctors - Declaration of Temporary Services
• Medical Doctors - Qualifications – Recognition
• Medical Masseurs/Terapeutic Masseurs – Recognition - sensitive profession
• Midwives - Declaration of Temporary Services
• Midwives- Qualifications – Recognition
• Music Therapists - Declaration of Services
• Music Therapists - Qualifications – Recognition

• Nurses Responsible for General Care – Recognition
• Nurses Responsible for General Care - European Professional Card
• Nursing Care - Managerial Tasks - sensitive profession
• Nursing Care - Specific Fields of Activities – Recognition
• Nursing Care - Teaching Tasks - sensitive profession

• Occupational therapists - Declaration of Services - sensitive profession
• Occupational therapists - Recognition - sensitive profession

• Paediatric nursing - sensitive profession
• Pharmacists - Declaration of Temporary Services
• Pharmacists - Qualification – Recognition
• Pharmacists - European Professional Card
• Physiotherapists - Declaration of Services - sensitive profession
• Physiotherapists - Qualifications – Recognition - sensitive Profession
• Physiotherapists - European Professional Card
• Psychiatric nursing - sensitive profession
• Psychotherapists - Declaration of Services
• Psychotherapists - Qualifications – Recognition

• Qualified Cardio-Technicians/Perfusionists – Recognition
• Qualified Nursing Care - Declaration of Services

• Radiology assistant - Declaration of Services - sensitive profession
• Radiology assistant - Recognition - sensitive Profession
• Renal nursing - sensitive profession

• Speech therapists - Declaration of Services - sensitive profession
• Speech therapists – Recognition - sensitive Profession
• Surgical nursing - sensitive profession

• Therapeutic Masseurs - Declaration of Temporary Services - sensitive profession

Regulated businesses or trades

• baker
• blasting contractor - sensitive profession
• boat builder
• bookbinder
• brass instrument maker
• butcher

• cabinet maker
• car body construction and painting technician
• ceramicist
• chemical laboratories - sensitive profession
• chemist - sensitive profession
• chimney sweep
• cleaning of monuments facades and buildings
• communications electronics
• consulting
• consulting engineers
• contact lens optician - sensitive profession
• cooper
• coppersmith
• corset-making - sensitive profession
• cosmetics (beauty care) - sensitive profession

• dairy technology
• debt-collecting institutes
• dental technician

• electrical engineering - sensitive profession

• flooring installer
• florist
• foot care - sensitive profession
• forwarding agent including shipping agents
• furrier

• gardener
• gas and sanitary engineering - sensitive profession
• glass-blowing and manufacture of glass apparatus - sensitive profession
• glazier glass-facing work and plate-glass polishing - sensitive profession
• gold and silversmith
• gold plater and decorator
• gold/silver/metal beater
• grain miller
• gunmaker (gunsmith) including trade in arms

• hair dresser and wig maker (stylist)
• harmonica maker
• hearing-aid acoustics - sensitive profession
• heating engineering
• hospitality industry
• house painter

• insurance mediation

• labour leasing
• lacquerer
• life and social coaching

• maker of men΄s clothing
• maker of women΄s clothing
• manufacture of cardboard goods
• manufacture of clothing and linen
• manufacture of leather fashion accessories and bag maker
• manufacture of pyrotechnic articles as well as trading in pyrotechnic articles (pyrotechnic companies) - sensitive profession
• manufacture of wallets cases and boxes
• massage
• master builder - sensitive profession
• master stone mason including artificial stone and terrazzo maker
• master well builder - sensitive profession
• master woodbuilder
• mechatronics technician specialising in electrical engineering and automation
• mechatronics technician specialising in electronic office and EDP systems technology
• mechatronics technician specialising in mechanical and production engineering
• mechatronics technician specialising in medical device technology
• metal design
• metal technology worker specialising in agricultural machinery and construction machinery
• metal technology worker specialising in forging and vehicle construction
• metal technology worker specialising in metal and mechanical engineering
• modeler

• opthalmic optics - sensitive profession
• organ maker
• orthopaedic shoemaker
• orthopaedic technology - sensitive profession

• paperhanger and upholsterer
• pastry chef (confectioner) including gingerbread bakers and candied fruit ice cream and chocolates makers
• paviour and tiler
• pest control
• piano maker
• plasterer and drywall fitter
• plastics processing
• polishing and shaping of hollow glass - sensitive profession
• printer and platemaker
• producer and wholesaler of pharmaceuticals and poisons - sensitive profession
• production and preparation as well as renting of medical devices to the extent these activities do not fall under a different regulated business or trade and trading in and renting of medical devices - sensitive profession
• professional financial advice
• prothestists & orthotists - sensitive profession

• real estate agent - European Professional Card
• real estate trustee
• refrigeration and air-conditioning
• repair of motor vehicles
• road/street works operative
• roofer

• saddler including coach trimming and harness making
• sculptor
• securities broker
• security sector
• shoemaker
• signmaking
• stove fitter - sensitive profession
• string instrument maker
• surface technology

• tailor for leather clothing
• textile cleaner (dry cleaner launderer and ironer)
• thermal acoustic and fire insulation
• tinsmith
• tourist guide
• travel agencies
• tyre vulcaniser/repairer

• undertaking business - sensitive profession

• ventilation technician

• watchmaker/clockmaker
• wood turner
• wood-wind instrument maker

Sport and leisure professions

• Boating school – licence (application) - German only

• Alpine and cross-country skiing - recognition of professional qualifications

• Provision of dance lessons (dance teacher licence)

Other professions

• Civil engineer – admission to civil engineering examination

• Certificate for the professional training of taxi drivers (application) - German only

• Driving school - licence (application) - sensitisve profession - German only

• Elevator - appointment of elevator inspectors (application)
• Elevator - appointment of elevator inspection companies (application)
• Inspection body in accordance with the Fire Prevention Act – nomination (application)
• Inspection of engineers responsible for boilers and heat engines – nomination (application) - German only

• Accountant - professional examination
• Balance sheet accountant - professional examination
• Balance sheet accountant - professional examination – exemption
• Business – certificate for EEA nationals (application)
• Chartered accountants – examination - admission
• Chartered accountants – examination- admission – decision regarding application
• Payroll accountants - professional examination
• Professional qualifications from other EU/EEA countries

• Training institution - certificate for the professional training of dangerous goods experts (application) - German only
• Training institution - certificate for the professional training of drivers driving vehicles loaded with dangerous goods - German only