Development of Mutually Acceptable Professional Standards and
Criteria
3. The Parties shall encourage the relevant bodies in their respective territories to develop mutually acceptable professional standards and criteria for licensing and certification of professional service providers and to provide recommendations on mutual recognition to the Commission.
4. Such standards and criteria may be developed with regard to the following matters:
(a) education - accreditation of schools or academic programs where professional service providers obtain formal education;
(b) examinations - qualifying examinations for the purpose of licensing professional service providers, including alternative methods of assessment such as oral examinations and interviews;
(c) experience - length and nature of experience required for a professional service provider to be licensed;
(d) conduct and ethics - standards of professional conduct and the nature of disciplinary action for non-conformity with those standards by professional service providers;
(e) professional development and re-certification - continuing education for professional service providers, and ongoing requirements to maintain professional certification;
(f) scope of practice - extent of, or limitations on, field of permissible activities of professional services providers;
(g) territory-specific knowledge - requirements for knowledge
by professional service providers of such matters as
local laws, regulations, language, geography or climate;
and