Mountain guide / ski guide - Exercise power

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Mountain and ski guides are persons who lead, accompany or teach mountain and ski tours, mountain hikes and sports climbing for commercial purposes, including rock and ice tours and high alpine ski tours. The main task of a mountain or ski guide is to safely guide people using their services to the agreed destination and back. If you want to work as a mountain and ski guide, you must apply for this to the competent authority and prove the required personal requirements. The pursuit of this activity as a business requires a power.

Note:
Alternatively, your home Member State makes it possible to apply for recognition by means of the European Professional Card (EPC).

• Nationality:
  • Austria
  • EU Member State
  • EEA Contracting State
  • Third country, to the extent that, under the law of the European Union or on the basis of a state treaty, the same rights for access to the profession are to be granted as nationals
• Age of majority
• Reliability: impeccable past life
• fitness for health
• professional competence:
  • through the successful completion of the mountain and ski guide test
    • in order to train as a mountain and ski guide, only persons who can demonstrate mountaineering and skiing knowledge (reports of the tours carried out in the last two years)
    • the training is divided into a rock formation, an ice training, a ski technique and a ski touring training, a freeride and a mountain rescue section. Each course includes a theoretical and a practical part. Note: For more detailed information on training, please contact the competent authority.
  • due to the successful completion of the final examination in the course for the training of mountain and ski guides in accordance with the Federal Sports Academy Act and the Ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Education on the aptitude tests, final examinations and qualification examinations at federal sports academies

Note: A mountain and ski guide training and examination shall be equivalent to trainings and examinations at federal institutions, a federal state or the Austrian mountain and ski guide association, in which the teaching material (examination material) coincides with those subjects (examination subject matter) of the mountain and ski guide training and in which the adult age and proof of sufficient mountaineering and skier knowledge are required for admission to the training course.

Additional information

Office of the State Government of Styria, Division 9 Culture, Europe and Sport

The request must be submitted in writing. The application must be accompanied by the necessary supporting documents to prove the personal requirements. If the authority has all the documents and if the personal requirements are met, the power shall be granted by decision.

If the Authority has all the documents and does not decide within a period of four months, the application shall be deemed approved (authorisation fiction). This is not the case if the applicant has been informed in good time by the authority of an extension of the deadline.

Note: The state government must confirm the approval in writing. The confirmation shall be sent to the party to the proceedings and to the Styrian Mountain Sports Guide Association.

Proof of personal requirements, in particular:

• Proof of nationality (for Austrians: Proof of citizenship, birth certificate or valid travel document)
• medical certificate
• Proof of professional competence
  • by successfully passing the mountain and ski guide test, or
  • due to the successful completion of the final examination in the course for the training of mountain and ski guides in accordance with the Federal Sports Academy Act and the Ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Education on the aptitude tests, final examinations and qualification examinations at federal sports academies

1.    ENTRY FEE
A fee of EUR 14.30 must be paid for the submission of the application. A fee of EUR 47.30 shall be payable for applications for the grant of power or recognition of a qualification or any other legal requirement to pursue an activity.

§§ 3 - 5 Styrian Mountain Sports Act

The authorities are obliged to issue the decision whithin six months after the application has been received. If the authority fails to decide within the specified deadline, you have the option of a „Säumnisbeschwerde“ . This Säumnisbeschwerde“ must include the name of the authority whose decision is pending. Additionally, the letter must state the request and provide evidence that the decision deadline of the authority has expired.

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Authentication or signature of the application is not required.

An appeal is possible against rulings issued by an authority and shall be filed by the party within a 4 weeks term with the authority that issued the ruling of first instance (against rulings without investigation procedure within a two weeks term). The term starts with the receipt of the written copy of the ruling, in the case of oral pronouncement simultaneously with it.

Point of Single Contact Styria

Office of the State Government of Styria
8010 Graz, Hofgasse 16

30.07.2024