General system of recognition of professional qualification
If a person intends to work in Lithuania according to a regulated profession, the professional qualification of the person will be recognized in accordance with the General System of Recognition of Professional Qualifications.
Apart from the professions (doctors, general care nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, architects, veterinary surgeon) whose training requirements are harmonized in the European Union.
According to the General system for the recognition of professional qualification, your training subjects will be compared with the requirements set in the Republic of Lithuania for respective professional training.
Lithuanian competent authority in every specific case having assessed the circumstances and discovered certain differences, substantially different matters:
- can request you to complete a professional adaptation period of a maximum of three years;
- aptitude test (compensation measure);
- in certain cases, the competent authority can apply both compensation measures.
You have to prove that you have pursued the profession in question on a full-time basis for one year or for an equivalent overall duration on a part-time basis during the previous 10 years in-home Member State and have one or more an attestation of competence or evidence of formal qualification.
In such an event, your professional qualification recognition is not required. You can apply directly to an employer who will establish job requirements.
Application and required documents can be submitted directly to a competent authority or through the Contact Centre of Services and Products. The application must be supported with Lithuanian translations of the documents. Translations must be certified by a translator’s signature and/or seal of a translation agency affixed.
Decision on recognition of your professional qualification is adopted within 3 months from the day of submission of all documents.