The Saeima¹ has adopted and
the President has proclaimed the following law:

On Implementation of the Joint Master's Study Programme "Strategic Border Management"

Section 1. The purpose of the Law is to ensure the participation of Rezekne Academy of Technologies in the implementation of the joint master's study programme "Strategic Border Management" (hereinafter - the joint study programme) in Latvia in order to promote uniform improvement of professional abilities and skills of a person within the European Union in strategic border management which strengthens the security of the European Union borders.

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Section 2. (1) The joint study programme is an academic study programme.

(2) Master's degree in strategic border management (study direction "Internal Security and Civil Protection") (hereinafter - the master's degree) shall be granted if the joint study programme in the amount of 60 credit points has been completed in full-time studies lasting eighteen months, the applicant has experience of at least three years in the operational border guard work at least at the level of middle stage management, and the total length of the implementation of the bachelor's and joint study programme is at least four and a half years in full-time studies and the amount is at least 180 credit points.

Section 3. The master's degree granted for the completion of the joint study programme shall conform to Level 7 of the European Qualification Framework laid down in the classifications of Latvian education.

Section 4. The joint study programme shall be implemented in conformity with the provisions of this Law and other legal acts of Latvia.

Section 5. The joint study programme shall be implemented from 1 September 2015 and not later than until 30 April 2027.

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This Law has been adopted by the Saeima on 29 January 2015.

President A. Bērziņš

Rīga, 11 February 2015

¹The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia

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