Prior checks – checks of professional qualifications
If you wish to temporary carry out work in Norway within a regulated profession that may have health or safety implications for the service recipient, the Norwegian competent authority may check your qualifications prior to the first provision of services.
Prior checks only apply to professions that fall under the scope of the general system for recognition on the basis of evidence of formal qualifications. In principle, prior checks do not apply to professions that fall under the scope of recognition on the basis of professional experience (trade and craft professions), coordination of minimum training requirements (harmonised professions: doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, midwives, veterinary surgeons), and the ones for which common training principles have been established.
The competent authority shall, within one month of receiving the notification, determine whether you can start working without further scrutiny of your qualifications, or if you need to undergo a compensation measure.
If the competent authority needs more than one month to determine this, you shall be notified of the reason for the delay within one month after the notification was received. In such cases, the competent authority shall make a decision within two months after the reason for the delay has been resolved.
If the competent authority has not processed the application within these deadlines, you may practice the profession.
Professions for which prior checks are required:
Divers:
- Diver, class A
- Diver, class B
- Diving Supervisor
Building and construction:
- Mobile crane operator (certificate category G1)
- Tower crane operator (certificate category G2)
- Portal/swing crane operator (certificate category G3)
- Gantry crane/overhead travelling crane operator (certificate category G4)
- Truck-mounted crane operator (certificate category G8)
- Operator of bulldozer with effect greater than 15 kW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M1)
- Excavator operator with effect greater than 15 kW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M2)
- Operator of grader with effect greater than 15 kW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M3)
- Operator of wheel loader with effect greater than 15 kW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M4)
- Operator of backhoe loader with effect greater than 15 KW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M5)
- Operator of dump truck with effect greater than 15 kW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M6)
- Operator of scraper with effect greater than 15 kW (20.4 HP) (certificate category M7)
- Fork lift truck operator – pedestrian low lift pallet truck, electric pallet truck with permanent platform, lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category T1)
- Fork lift truck operator – Reach truck with lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category T2)
- Fork lift truck operator – High-lifting order pickers/side loading and rider-lifting picking truck with lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category T3)
- Fork lift truck operator – Counterbalance forklift truck with lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category T4)
- Fork lift truck operator – Forklift side loader with lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category T5)
- Fork lift truck operator – Telescopic handler/variable reach truck with lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category C1)
- Fork lift truck operator – Rotating telescopic handler truck with a lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes (certificate category C2)
- Fork lift truck operator – Forklift side loader with lifting capacity over 10 tonnes (certificate category T6)
- Fork lift truck operator – Straddle carriers with lifting capacity over 10 tonnes (certificate category T7)
- Fork lift truck operator – Counterbalance truck, fork arms – lifting capacity over 10 tonnes (certificate category T8)
- Fork lift truck operator – Container handler – lifting capacity over 10 tonnes (certificate category T8.1)
- Fork lift truck operator – Counterbalance truck with permanent log grab – lifting capacity over 10 tonnes (certificate category T8.2)
- Fork lift truck operator – Counterbalance forklift truck, telescopic beam – lifting capacity over 10 tonnes (certificate category T8.4
Road traffic:
- Driving instructor
- Driving instructor – additional qualifications, categories A1, A2 and A
- Driving instructor – additional qualifications, heavy categories
- Responsible manager of tachograph workshop
- Technical manager of vehicle inspection centre
- Workshop manager
- Emergency vehicle driver
- Emergency vehicle driver training manager
- Emergency vehicle driving instructor
- Inspector at authorised testing centre for periodic roadworthiness tests
Animal health professions:
- Inseminator
- Aqua medicine biologist
- Veterinary nurse
Health professions:
- Advanced Practice Nursing – General Practice
- Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
- Naprapath
- Osteopath
- Emergency medical technician
- Pharmacy technician
- Audiologist
- Medical laboratory technician
- Occupational therapist
- Podiatrist
- Physiotherapist
- Health care worker
- Medical secretary
- Chiropractor
- Clinical nutritionist
- Optometrist
- Cardiovascular perfusionist
- Orthoptist
- Prosthetist
- Psychologist
- Radiographer
- Bachelor in pharmacy: Prescriptionist
- Dental health secretary
- Dental hygienist
- Dental technician
- Nurse trained in learning disabilities
Blasting and electrical professions:
- Automation electrician
- Automation mechanic
- Electrician (low voltage)
- Electrical equipment repairer
- Power-supply fitter electrician
- Lift electrician
- Train electrician
- Power line electrician
- Repairer of electromedical devices
- Person who has the professional responsibility for work related to electrical installations on the employer's own electrical (low and high voltage) power distribution grids, line networks, distribution systems, transformer substations and appurtenant equipment
- Person who has the professional responsibility for work related to electrical installations
- Person who has the professional responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the employer's own low-voltage installations or for simple low power high-voltage installations
- Person who has the professional responsibility for inspections of electrical systems on behalf of the Norwegian authorities
- Person who performs inspections of electrical installations and electrical equipment on behalf of the Norwegian authorities
- Authorised rock blaster
- Authorised rock blaster adviser
- Certified pyrotechnician
- Certified stage pyrotechnician
- Technical blasting adviser
