A single directory of the national and supranational systems that define veterinary specialty credentials. Built to support harmonisation, mutual recognition, and the EBVS WP1–WP5 programme.
What VetPass holds
Browse the national and supranational systems that govern veterinary specialisation across Europe — by country, by species, by domain.
See training pathway, examination, supervised-practice, and CPD-renewal requirements side by side — per specialty, not lumped per country.
Track which systems mutually recognise each other, under what basis (bilateral, EBVS, EU directive) — the cross-border layer behind mobility.
Quality-assurance mechanisms — accreditation, peer review, public registers, complaints — held to the same comparable schema across systems.
About
The veterinary specialisation landscape in Europe is fragmented — different countries, different colleges, different training routes, different standards. WP1 of the EBVS programme builds the foundation: a single, comparable directory of every system that defines, certifies, or governs a veterinary specialty across Europe. WP2 (market analysis), WP4 (standardisation), and WP5 (mutual recognition) all build on top of this dataset.
Every system is described against the same schema: legal basis, training duration, supervised-practice expectation, examination, CPD-for-renewal, accreditation, complaints procedure. The standardisation process becomes the act of defining what the “ideal” values look like across that schema — and then measuring distance from ideal, system by system.
The recognition_links graph captures which systems recognise which, on what legal basis, and to what depth (full / partial / under negotiation). Practitioners and regulators can navigate the cross-border landscape directly; the EBVS programme can prioritise the gaps.
Each record carries its own provenance — survey response, institutional submission, official document, or web research. A next_review_due field drives the Year 2 update cycle. Everything is sourced, dated, and traceable.
VetPass
— a project of the EBVS
