Promotion of Vocational Education Act
Berufsbildungsförderungsgesetz (BerBiFG)

Promotion of Vocational Education Act (BerBiFG) of 23 December 1981, last amended on 9 July 2001

The Act determines the objectives of vocational education planning, holds the Federal Government responsible for submitting an annual vocational education report, establishes the principles for vocational education statistics and defines the responsibilities of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung). The Federal Institute for Vocational Education works under the legal supervision of the competent Federal Minister.

The Act applies to vocational education (initial vocational education, further vocational education, vocational retraining), unless such education is provided in vocational education schools, which are within the scope of the Schools Acts of the Länder.