02.1 By when must a quality management system accredited under the old law* have implemented the criteria of the MRVO or the corresponding state ordinance at the latest? (*The date of conclusion of the contract between the higher education institution and the Agencies for the peer-review procedure is decisive for accreditation under the old law).

According to Clause 6.2 of the “Rules for the Accreditation of Study Programmes and for System Accreditation” (Resolution of the Accreditation Council in the version dated 20.02.2013), compliance with the applicable Law is mandatory. This means that the higher education institution, by means of its internal quality management systems, must in principle only observe the formal and academic criteria for study programmes contained in the MRVO.

It is obvious that any changes require a certain amount of time; every system-accredited higher education institution should check the effects on the internal QM system immediately after new rules have been issued and, if changes are required, initiate implementation with a timetable. In the subsequent system accreditation, it should be discussed whether the QM system has proven to be sufficiently adaptable to new framework conditions.

The criteria for internal quality management systems standardized in § 17 and § 18 MRVO, on the other hand, are only to be observed with the next system reaccreditation.