The entire system of procedures for establishing and awarding qualifications and assuring their quality.

Procedures of development, awarding and recognition of qualifications as well as quality assurance procedures, systems of validation of social competences acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning, as well as credit accumulation and transfer systems constitute components of the national qualifications system.

Moreover national qualifications system ought to be understood as institutional solutions within which the procedures related to the development and award of qualifications are carried out.