CPD Monitoring and Enforcement

CPD Compliance team

ECSA will conduct regular yet random audits to ensure compliance, assessing the validity of submitted CPD credits and supporting documentation. Non-compliance may result in the cancellation of your registration. Note that professionals will be given an opportunity to submit explanations and take corrective actions before more serious steps are considered. In this section, you will be able to find more information about:

CPD Audits
CPD Audit

The CPD Rules empower ECSA to perform random audits on registered persons who have successfully renewed their registration to assess CPD compliance. The audit is conducted monthly on a percentage of randomly selected registered persons, who are formally requested to submit documentary proof of completed CPD activities during the five-year cycle.
Code of Conduct

ECSA undertakes a monitoring and auditing process to ensure that:

      • the CPD Activities a registered person has undertaken are aligned with the ECSA CPD Standard
      • records and supporting documentation such as certificates, lists of results and records of attendance are verified

all international activities have undergone a validation process.
Compliance

The onus rests on the registered person to provide evidence for the CPD activity in terms of these rules. If a registered person is selected for an audit, such a registered person must upload all the documentation ECSA requests for the audit within 30 calendar days of receiving the notification.

If it is found that registered persons have failed to comply with the requirements of these Rules in their application to renew their registration, the ECSA will:

CPD Non-Compliance
CPD Protocol

Record this fact in the applicable register
Remedial Action

Inform the non-compliant registered person/applicant of this fact and afford the registered person/applicant an opportunity to submit a written explanation why the requirements have not been met and to indicate how the applicant plans to remedy the deficiency.
Remedial Action

If, after considering the registered person’s/applicant’s response in terms of Rule 16(a), ECSA accepts the explanation and the remedial measures the registered person/applicant proposes, ECSA will grant an extension of time to enable the applicant to comply with the requirements. If the ECSA does not accept the explanation or the remedial measures the registered person/applicant propose, it must determine the remedial measures to be taken to comply with the requirements and determine the period of extension that will be granted for the registered person/applicant to meet the requirements
CPD Appeals Process

Registered persons may make a submission to ECSA if they feel aggrieved by an assessment/validation/decision. Such representation must be made no later than 30 days after ECSA made the assessment/decision.

Documents / Link Resources

5.3 Appeals

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