General Measures of Approvals and Equivalences

CATHYDE may adopt a general measure when any of the following three situations arise:

  • Existence of an international agreement between Spain and another country, for the mutual and reciprocal recognition of academic levels (declaration of equivalence) or that mutually recognise university degrees whose attainment is a requirement for access to the exercise of the same regulated profession in both countries (homologation), always taking into account those requirements provided for in the specific regulations both national and of the European Union.
  • Existence of an agreement between ANECA or the quality assurance agencies of the Autonomous Communities and those present in another country, which mutually recognise the quality of the curricula of the official university courses of a given country, or of a given university or group of universities in the country, in relation to the fundamental knowledge they provide and the competences to which they lead, according to the academic levels in which the respective degrees are framed, which are obtained on passing these courses, always in accordance with the requirements of the specific regulations of both the national and the European Union.
  • Corroboration of applications to which homogeneous criteria can be applied, when it is corroborated that certain applications for recognition and declaration of equivalence of a specific foreign degree come from the same university, the same syllabus and from a specific country, and that they also contain generic aspects, such as duration or level or any other generic aspects, which make them in any case susceptible to the application of homogeneous criteria.

The general measures adopted by CATHYDE can be consulted on the website of the Ministry of Universities.

General measures adopted at the proposal of ANECA

ANECA, within its capacity, may propose general measures, through technical reports that establish general criteria relating to:

  • Generic aspects, such as duration or level or any other generic aspect of the homologation or declaration of equivalence.
  • Certain foreign qualifications that have similar characteristics that make them susceptible to the application of homogeneous criteria.

These ANECA technical reports may be adopted as general measures by CATHYDE, within the provisions of Royal Decree 889/2022. On the other hand, the agreements between ANECA and the national quality assurance agencies that make up the Ibero-American Higher Education System (SIACES) promoted within the framework of the Ibero-American Knowledge Space (EIC) by the Summits of Ibero-American Heads of State and Government, have allowed CATHYDE to adopt general measures for the resolution of requests for declaration of equivalence of the study plans accredited by the SIACES agencies.

You can consult these technical reports in the most recent resolutions of the ANECA Directorate, in the following link: