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in 1995 to support the free movement of skilled professionals.

However, it contains provisions focusing only on the business
visitors for sales negotiations, natural persons on a temporary
basis, intra-company transfers of executives, managers and

other high-skilled professionals accompanying FDI – Foreign
Direct Investment. An MRA – Mutual Recognition Agreement 3

– is one of the main tools for achieving labor mobility.
Additionally, one of the most important tools to support the
MRAs is ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework – AQRF.
4

3 ASEAN has established Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) on 8
professions – doctors, dentists, nurses, architects, engineers, accountants,
surveyors and tour guides.
4
ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework is established to enable
comparisons of qualifications across countries which will support recognition of
qualifications, facilitate lifelong learning, promote and encourage credit transfer
and learner mobility and promote worker mobility. The AQRF is underpinned
by a set of agreed quality assurance principles and broad standards related
to functions of the registering and accrediting agencies, education and training
providers, systems for the assessment learning and issuing of qualifications and
regulation of the issuance of certificates. More information on the provisions of
ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework is available at http://asean.org/storage
/2017/03/ED-02-ASEAN-Qualifications-Reference-Framework-January-2016.pdf

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