1Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC Engineer), There is an agreement in place between a number of APEC countries for the purposes of recognising " substantial equivalence" of professional competence in engineering. APEC countries can apply to become members of the agreement by demonstrating that they have in place systems which allow the competence of engineers to be assessed to the agreed international standard set by the APEC Engineer agreement.
2International Engineering Technologist Agreement, As a result of an agreement by the Sydney Accord signatories to explore mutual recognition for experienced engineering technologists, representatives of the engineering profession in each of the sig- natories to the Sydney Accord met in Sydney in November 1999, and Thornybush South Africa in June 2001.
3International Professional Engineers Agreement, The Interna- tional Professional Engineers Agreement, IPEA (formally the Engineers Mobility Forum agreement) is a multi-national a- greement between engineering organisations in the member ju- risdictions which creates the framework for the establishment of an international standard of competence for professional en- gineering, and then empowers each member organization to es- tablish a section of the International Professional Engineers Register.
4The Washington Accord, The Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting engineering degree programs.
5Sydney Accord,Flowing from the Washington Accord, a simi- lar Agreement was developed for Engineering Technologists or Incorporated Engineers, called the Sydney Accord (SA), which was signed in June 2001.
6Dublin Accord,The Dublin Accord is an agreement for the in ternational recognition of Engineering Technician qualifica- tions.
