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Personal attendance is usually necessary.

Prospective: The modalities for obtaining a digital certificate of completion or leaving certificate have not yet been determined.

Have you completed a school semester, school year or a course of education? You will be issued with the certificate by the school you attended on the day your certificate is issued. If it is a graduation or leaving certificate, you will also receive a certified copy of the certificate.

Note: Certificates are issued and handed out automatically at the school you attended. It is not necessary to apply for the first issue.

A school relationship and school attendance.

In the state of Brandenburg, a leaving certificate is awarded to anyone who has successfully completed a course of education or passed a final examination and leaves school. Leaving certificates can be considered under certain conditions if the course of education attended has not been successfully completed but the student leaves the school.

No costs are incurred for the first issue of the original certificate, the first certified copy for the pupil and for the copy to be placed in the pupil's file, and no administrative fee is charged due to the exemption from school fees in accordance with § 114 BbgSchulG. The fee statutes of the municipal school authorities must take this into account accordingly. Fees may be charged for the issue of further certified copies.

Report cards are issued automatically at the respective school attended without application, in good time before the report card is issued and are usually issued to the pupils present on the day the report card is issued at the end of the school semester or school year.

If a pupil is not present on the day the report is issued due to leave of absence, illness or other reasons for which he or she is not responsible, the report must be sent to the parents or, if the pupil is of age, to the pupil in a sealed envelope.

End of school year, end of school semester or leaving date;

Certificates are issued on the last teaching day of the class or course in the school semester, after the end of the examinations or immediately after a subsequent examination in accordance with number 6 paragraph 4 VV-Zeugnisse. In justified individual cases, a certificate can also be issued earlier, provided it can be issued in accordance with the educational course regulations. The recipient does not need to observe a deadline for receiving the certificate.

The respective school at local authority level is responsible for issuing school reports.

In exceptional cases (e.g. certain organizational forms of a non-pupil examination), certificates are issued by the responsible state education authority.

The respective responsible school

• § Section 58 of the Brandenburg School Act (BbgSchulG)
• § 11 Primary School Ordinance
• § Section 14 (1) of the Secondary Level I Ordinance
• § Section 34 of the Upper Secondary School Ordinance
• §§ Sections 16 and 23 of the Vocational School Ordinance
• § Section 28 ZBW Ordinance
• § 11 Non-Student Examination Ordinance
• Administrative regulations on school certificates (VV certificates)

Pupils in dual vocational training receive a certificate of completion of the course of education for the school-based part of vocational training from the vocational school or OSZ (general education school) attended and a vocational certificate from the relevant competent authority.

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport

Department 14