{"id":11362,"date":"2024-11-25T14:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/dla-instytucji\/oplaty\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:57:13","slug":"application-fees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/for-institutions\/application-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Application fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In accordance with the IQS Act (Articles 17, 43 and 55), the bank account number below should be used for quarterly fees paid by awarding bodies and for fees relating to applications for:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the inclusion of qualifications in the IQS,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>authorisation to award qualifications,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>entry on the list of external quality assurance bodies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ministry of National Education account:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Narodowy Bank Polski, Regional Branch in Warsaw<br>account no.&nbsp; 22 1010 1010 0031 0222 3100 0000<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These fees constitute state budget revenue. Fees are non-refundable, except where an application for the inclusion of a qualification in the IQS is not taken forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quarterly fees paid by awarding bodies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An awarding body pays a quarterly fee equal to 3% of its revenue from validation and certification, but not less than PLN 1 for each certificate issued (Article 46(1)).&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An awarding body that has entered into an agreement to provide free validation for pupils or graduates pays a reduced quarterly fee (Article 46(2)).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Application fees<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the IQS Act, fees apply to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>an application for the inclusion of a market qualification in the IQS (Article 17),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an application for the inclusion of a sectoral qualification in the IQS (Article 17),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an application for authorisation to award a market qualification (Article 43),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an application for authorisation to award a sectoral qualification (Article 43),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an application for entry on the list of external quality assurance bodies (Article 55).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amounts of these fees are specified in the relevant Articles of the Act. The amounts are adjusted once every five years in accordance with the rules set out in the Act. The adjusted fee amounts are announced by the Minister of Education, acting as Minister-Coordinator of the IQS, in an official notice published in the official journal of the Republic of Poland, <em>Monitor Polski<\/em>. The announced fees apply for the following five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application fee amounts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>applicable from 3 February 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Type of fee<\/td><td>Amount<\/td><td>Payment reference<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>application for the inclusion of a market qualification in the IQS<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>PLN 2,830<\/strong> <br><\/td><td>IQS Article 14 \u2013 NAME OF MARKET QUALIFICATION<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>application for the inclusion of a sectoral qualification in the IQS<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>PLN 2,830<\/strong> <br><\/td><td>IQS Article 15a \u2013 NAME OF SECTORAL QUALIFICATION<br><br><em>Applications submitted by organisations that operate Sector Skills Centres or are their partners are exempt from the fee until 30 June 2026<\/em>.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>application for authorisation to award a qualification<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><br><em>* The amount is reduced if the applicant institution has also submitted an application for the inclusion of the same qualification in the IQS.&nbsp;<\/em><\/td><td><strong>PLN 14,151<\/strong> <br><br><strong>* PLN 7,075.50<br><\/strong><br><br><\/td><td>IQS Article 41.2 \u2013 NAME OF MARKET QUALIFICATION&nbsp;or&nbsp;IQS Article 41.3 \u2013 NAME OF SECTORAL QUALIFICATION<br><br><em>Applications for authorisation to award sectoral qualifications submitted by organisations that operate Sector Skills Centres or are their partners are exempt from the fee until 31 December 2026.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>application for entry on the list of external quality assurance bodies<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>PLN 2,830<\/strong><\/td><td>IQS Article 53.1 \u2013 NAME OF APPLICANT<em> <\/em><br><br><em>The application is subject to the fee shown above regardless of the number of qualification groups indicated in the application for entry on the list of external quality assurance bodies<\/em>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with the IQS Act (Articles 17, 43 and 55), the bank account number below should be used for quarterly fees paid by awarding bodies and for fees relating to applications for:&nbsp; Ministry of National Education account: Narodowy Bank Polski, Regional Branch in Warsawaccount no.&nbsp; 22 1010 1010 0031 0222 3100 0000 These fees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":10998,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16941,"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11362\/revisions\/16941"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwalifikacje.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}