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  I.N.C.U.A.L. 

Instituto Nacional de las Cualificaciones  

The National Institute for Qualifications (INCUAL) was set up, by Royal Decree 375/1999 of 5 March, to regulate and coordinate the National Qualifications and Vocational Training System, the main activities were to support the General Council on VET for the observation of qualifications and their evolution, the definition of qualifications and their accreditation, the development of the integration on qualifications and the following up and evaluation of the National Programme for VET.     The INCUAL, as a technical instrument, endowed with capacity and independence of criteria, provides through its own professional Observatory information about occupations in the labour market. The INCUAL is responsible for defining, preparing and keeping up to date the national Catalogue of Occupational Qualifications and the proper Catalogue of VET by Modules (Art. 5.3 of Organic Act 5/2002 of 19 June on Qualifications and Vocational Training).

1. INCUAL as instrument for development of National Qualifications System. Is based on the idea established by the European Union of life‑long learning, so that the measures provided for the subsystems of initial regulated training, continuous training and vocational training are defined and interconnected, starting from the principle of active cooperation among the General State Administration, the Autonomous Communities and the social agents.

2. Training and Certification Standards for Sport Sector Spain is now designing his National Vocational Qualifications catalogue. Physic & Sport Activities (AFD): Definition of standards in Physic & Sport Activities &Hotels and tourism (HOT); Design of training associated to competence in AFD & HOT; Assessment and recognition of competence in AFD & HOT.