Artikel 2

1. Parties shall, to the extent that the State is the competent authority in the matter in their territory, recognise any period of study spent by a student in an institution of higher education of another Party as equivalent to a similar period spent in his or her institution of origin, provided:
- that there has been a previous agreement between, on the one hand, the institution of higher education of origin or the competent authority of the Party where this institution is situated and, on the other hand, the institution of higher education or the competent authority of the Party on the territory of which the period of study has taken place;
- that the authorities of the institution of higher education where the period of study has taken place have issued to the student a certificate attesting that he or she has completed the said period of study to their satisfaction.
2. The length of the period of study referred to in the previous paragraph shall be determined by the competent authorities of the Party on the territory of which the institution of higher education of origin is situated.