Document Sealing Requirements in Europe 1

[aalfrey]

All:
Here in the United States there are requirements to seal certain documents by a licensed professional engineer. I may be doing some international work soon, specifically in Europe both in and out of the EU. I was wondering if there was a good resource that lays out the requirements of different countries for approval of engineering documents or if this was a U.S. specific activity? Obviously there are European specific standards that must be followed, but I am more concerned with any license requirements in the EU or non-EU European countries. Thanks for any insight/resources that anyone can provide!

 

[LittleInch]

You probably can't do initially much better than wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_engineering#Europe

Other than specific industries like aircraft engineering / repair and electrical and gas installations (mainly industrial / domestic) there are no real comparisons with the US/Canadian PE and "sealing" of documents.

Russia and a lot of ex soviet countries still have effective sealing of design by design institutes and govt regulation, but Europe doesn't.

There are many issue to do with the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) and using CE stamped equipment, but this is unique to the pressure industry.

Civil designs and the requirement for review and approval by local authorities varies across the EU, but in general there is no sealing of the design.


in the petrochem industry it helps to have certain professional registrations or to be a chartered engineer, but AFAIK this is not a statutory requirement (sadly). The term engineer is, at least in the UK, a much misused term and can apply to virtually anyone with or without qualifications. Other European countries it is a more protected term, but generally a suitable engineering degree is all you need.

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[aalfrey]

Thanks for the response! That is what it seemed like from the searching I did, but wanted to confirm.