Definition

For the purposes of this Agreement, and any future Rules and Procedures made under this Agreement, the educational base for engineering technicans is defined as the programs through which practitioners normally satify the academic requirements for the engineering roles currently known amongst the initial signatories as:

• Certified Engineering - Technician Canada
• Engineering Technician - Republic of Ireland
• Professional Engineering Technician - Republic of South Africa
• Engineering Technician - United Kingdom

The term "engineering technican" is used throughout this Agreement to refer to practitioners engaged in any or all of the above roles.

Preamble

The signatoreis have exchanged information on, and have examined, their respective processes, policies and procedures for recognising the educational base for engineering technicians, and have concluded that these are comparable, and that those successfully completing this educational base can be relied on to have acquired the broad outcomes listed in Annexe A. Through the Dublin Accord, which comprises this Agreement and any future Rules and Procedures, the signatories recognise the substantial equivalence of the educational base within Signatory economies in satisfying the academic requirements for practice as an engineering technican within the engineering team. Detail of the exemplifying qualifications is use in each of the economies, together with the over all description of the expected output of exemplifying academic courses, are listed in Annexe A to this agreement.