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The European Professional Card (EPC) is an electronic procedure you can use to have your professional qualifications recognised in another EU/EEA country. The EPC is available for these professions:

• Mountain Guides

• Nurses Responsible for General Care

• Pharmacists

• Physiotherapists

• Real Estate Agents

You can apply for an EPC if you want to get access to pursue your profession permanently, but also if you want to provide temporary services. Find out more about and apply for the EPC on the European Commission website.

If you wish to carry out work i Denmark within a regulated profession, that have public health or safety implications - e.g. as a chiropractor or a driving instructor - the danish competent authority may check your professional qualifications prior to your first provision of services. You can find all the regulated professions and their application procedures by following this link:

Go to the complete list of regulated professions and apply for a permit

Please find below an overview of regulated professions in Denmark, that have public health or safety implications:

• Certified fire safety consultant

• Certified Pyrotechnician

• Certified structural engineer

• Chiropodist

• Chiropractor

• Clinical Dental Technician

• Clinical Dietician

• Dental Hygienist

• Driving Instructor

• Fire safety inspector

• Firefighter

• Incident Commander in the municipal fire brigade

• Medical Laboratory Technologist

• Noise measurements and calculations

• Occupational Therapist

• Optometrist

• Osteopath

• Paramedic

• Paramedic with special competences

• Pest Control Officer

• Pharmaconomist

• Physiotherapist

• Professional use of pesticides that are subject to approval and meant for protecting plants, destroying undesired plants or part

• Prosthetist and Orthotist

• Public Health Nurse

• Radiographer

• Rearing of certain types of animals (persons responsible for operating deer/ostrich/fox and wing games farms)

• Security guard

• Social and Healthcare Assistant

• Specialised Nurse in anaestesiology

• Specialised Nurse in Infection Control

• Specialised Nurse in Intensive Care

• Specialised Nurse in Oncology

• Specialised Nurse in Psychiatry

• Specialist in Community and Primary Health Care Nursing

• Steward at certain sports events

• Structural Engineer

• Team leader in the Emergency Service/Fire brigade

• Trikinseeker

• Vermin controller

• Water service manager

• Well driller

• Work with asbestos removal

• Work with forklift truck

• Work with lift inspection, maintenance and repair work etc.

• Work with refugiration plants and heat pumps on more than 2,5 kg

• Work with scaffold

• Work with telescope loader

• Work with tending of hot water and steam boilers

• Work with welding and thermic cutting in metal

In some fields you have a right to practice your profession based on your educational background, which is required by law. You can find all regulated professions and their application procedures, where relevant, by following this link:

Go to the complete list of regulated professions and apply for a permit

Please find below an overview of regulated professions, you can practice, if you have the required educational background and their contepetent authority:

The Working Environment Authority:

• Asbestos removal

• Work with inspection, maintenance and repair of elevators, etc.

• Boiler Attendant

• Scaffold Erector

• Welding work

• Work with asphalt materials

• Work with epoxy and isocyanates

• Refrigeration engineer

• Work with scaffold erection (education in erection of scaffolds)

• Fork Lift Truck Driver

• Building Site Coordinator

• Operator of Fork Stacker

• Operator of Telescope Loader

• Work as crane driver on installations, etc. (crane driver certificate) (offshore)

• Work as fork-lift truck driver (offshore)

• Fork Lift Truck Driver

• Building Site Coordinator

• Operator of Fork Stacker

• Operator of Telescope Loader

• Work as crane driver on installations, etc. (crane driver certificate) (offshore)

• Work as fork-lift truck driver (offshore)

• Work with epoxy and isocyanates on installations, etc. (Epoxy-education)

• Work with asbestos (education in demolition of asbestos) (offshore)

• Work with welding (education in welding works) (offshore)

• Work with scaffold erection (education in erection of scaffolds)

• Work with styrene and polyester moulding

• Responsible for drilling operations (well control course)

• Work with styrene on installations (education in working with styrene)

• Responsible for drilling operations (well control course) (offshore)

• Crane Driver over 8 tm.

• Work with asphalt Materials (bitumenproducts) (offshore)

• Work with mobile cranes over 8 mT (offshore)

• Work with mobile cranes over 30 mT (offshore)

• Work with tower cranes and fixed cranes (offshore)

• Work as telescope loader driver (offshore)

• Work with inspection, maintenance and repair of lifts, etc. (offshore)

• Work as a boiler attendant (offshore)

• Work as a refrigeration engineer (offshore)

• Work as operator of fork-lift stacker (offshore)

The Danish Supervisory Board of Psychological Practice:

• Psychologist

The Danish Geodata Agency:

• Land surveyors

The Danish Energy Agency:

• Energy consultancy - requirement for certification of company

The Danish Safety Technology Authority:

• Cable installer and pipe fitter

The Danish Maritime Authority:

• Commercial diving

• Ship's Assistant, Seaman and Motorman

• Deck officer /skipper fishing fleet > 45m

• Deck officer class II fishing vessel

• Master of a fishing vessel

• Mate (on fishing vessels)

• Maritime Pilot

• Ship's Cook

• Marine Engineer (on fishing vessels)

• Chief Engineer (on fishing vessel)

• Other occupations where the Danish Maritime Authority requires completion of a safety course of about 3 days

The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority:

• Insurance Intermediary

• Responsible actuary

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency:

• Well Driller

• Waste Water Treatment Plant Manager

• Employment at landfill sites as operator or staff

• Authorised refrigeration technician (category II)

The Danish Patient Safety Authority:

• Pharmacist

• Ambulance staff (Paramedic Assistant, Paramedic and Paramedic with special competences)

The Danish Transport, Construction and Housing Authority:

• Chimney sweeper

The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education:

• Pedagogue of the Danish Primary School

• Teacher of the Danish Folkeskole (Primary and Lower Secondary School Teacher)

• Teacher of Upper Secondary School (STX, HF, HHX and HTX)