Regulated professions

Do you wish to work in one the professions mentioned below on the basis of your non-Danish qualifications?

In that case you can look the profession up in this list to find the information you need:

 

The following professions are covered by the act on the access to certain occupations in Denmark and the EU Professional Qualifications Directive:

  • Appointed Building Expert
  • Asbestos removal
  • Audiology and hearing aid fitting
  • Authorised Manure Tank Inspector
  • Authorised Psychologist
  • Authorised refrigeration technician (category II)
  • Authorized Veterinary Nurse
  • Boiler Attendant
  • Building Site Coordinator
  • Cable Installer
  • Cattle Inseminator
  • Certified Fire Safety Consultant
  • Certified Structural Engineer
  • Chief Engineer (on fishing vessel)
  • Chimney Sweeper
  • Chiropodist
  • Chiropractor
  • Clinical Dental Technician
  • Clinical Dietician
  • Collection of recyclable industrial waste (collector certificate)
  • Commercial Diving
  • Crane Driver
  • Cultivation of genetically modified crops
  • Dental Hygienist
  • Dentist
  • Doorman employed by a licensed establishment
  • Driving Instructor
  • Employment at waste disposal sites as operator or staff (landfill sites)
  • EMT – Emergency Medical Technician
  • Energy Consultant
  • Environmental noise measurements and predictions
  • Financial Adviser
  • Fire Safety Inspector
  • Firefighter
  • Fisherman
  • Fork Lift Truck Driver
  • Fur Animal Inseminator
  • Horse Inseminator
  • Implantation of transponders in equidae
  • Incident Commander in the municipal Fire Brigade
  • Insurance Intermediary
  • Keepers responsible for mink farms
  • Land Surveyor
  • Lawyer (admission to the bar)
  • Lift Inspector
  • Marine Engineer (on fishing vessels)
  • Maritime Pilot
  • Master of a fishing vessel
  • Mate (on fishing vessels)
  • Medical Laboratory Technologist
  • Midwife
  • Nurse
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Operation manager for electrical plants
  • Operator of Fork Stacker
  • Operator of Telescope Loader
  • Optometrist
  • Osteopath
  • Other occupations where the Danish Maritime Authority requires completion of a safety course of about 3 days
  • Paramedic
  • Pedagogue of the Danish Folkeskole (primary school)
  • Pet shop
  • Pharmacist
  • Pharmaconomist
  • Physician (Medical Doctor)
  • Physiotherapist
  • Pig Inseminator
  • Pipe Fitter
  • Prescribing pharmacist
  • Professional Fireworks
  • Professional operator of pesticides (Fertiliser Sample Expert)
  • Prosthetist and Orthotist
  • Psychologist
  • Radiographer
  • Rat Control
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Rearing of certain types of animals (person responsible for farms with deer, ostrich and feathered game)
  • Refrigeration engineer
  • Responsible actuary
  • Responsible for drilling operations (well control course) (offshore)
  • Scaffold Erector
  • Security Guard
  • Ship's Assistent, Seaman and Motorman
  • Ship's Cook
  • Single qualified nurse/Specialised Nurse
  • Social and Healthcare Assistant
  • Special Investment Advisor
  • Specialised Dentist
  • Specialised Doctor
  • State Authorised Public Accountant
  • Steward at certain sports events
  • Teacher of Danish for Adult Foreigners
  • Teacher of the Danish Folkeskole (Primary and Lower Secondary School Teacher)
  • Team Leader in the Emergency Service/Fire Brigade
  • Technically responsible person within the electricity field
  • Technically responsible person within the plumbing field (gas, water and drainage system)
  • Technically responsible person within the sewer field
  • Trichinella Seekers
  • Upper Secondary School Teacher
  • Vermin controller
  • Veterinary Surgeon
  • Veterinary Technician
  • Waste water Treatment Plant Manager
  • Welding work
  • Well Driller
  • Work as boiler attendant (offshore)
  • Work as crane driver on installations, etc. (crane driver certificate) (offshore)
  • Work as crane operator over 8 tm
  • Work as fork-lift truck driver (offshore)
  • Work as operator of fork-lift stacker (offshore)
  • Work as refrigeration engineer (offshore)
  • Work as telescope loader driver (offshore)
  • Work with asbestos (education in demolition of asbestos) (offshore)
  • Work with asphalt materials
  • Work with asphalt materials (bitumenproducts) (offshore)
  • Work with epoxy and isocyanates
  • Work with epoxy and isocyanates on installations, etc. (Epoxy-education) (offshore)
  • Work with inspection, maintenance and repair of lifts etc. (offshore)
  • Work with mobile cranes over 30 mT
  • Work with mobile cranes over 30 mT (offshore)
  • Work with mobile cranes over 8 mT
  • Work with mobile cranes over 8 mT (offshore)
  • Work with scaffold erection (education in erection of scaffolds) (offshore)
  • Work with styrene and polyester moulding
  • Work with styrene on installations (education in working with styrene) (offshore)
  • Work with tower cranes and fixed cranes (offshore)
  • Work with tower cranes and fixed cranes over 8 mT
  • Work with welding (education in welding works) (offshore)
  • Zoological Taxidermist