Berufsbildungsfond BBF / Fonds pour la formation professionelle FFP / Fondi per la formazione professionale FFP / Vocational training fund

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Annual financial statements 2023 (in German) (older financial statements linked below)

Auditor's report 2023 (in German)

Annual report 2023 (in German)

At its delegates' meeting in 2010, the IG Kunsthandwerk Holz decided to establish a joint vocational training fund – the Berufsbildungsfond (BBF). The purpose of this independent fund is to relieve the burden on training companies, particularly with regard to bearing the costs of providing professional training, and to distribute these costs across all professionals and amateur craftspeople in our industries. The vocational training fund has its own fund commission, which is elected by the board of IG Kunsthandwerk Holz. This is provided for by Art. 60 para. 4 of the Swiss Vocational and Professional Education and Training Act (VPETA), which allows the fund to be declared generally mandatory. This means that non-organised companies can also be obliged to pay into the fund. On 1 May 2015, the vocational training fund came into effect in accordance with the declaration of general application by the Swiss Federal Council on 31 March 2015 (link below).

Serving on the BBF Fund Commission are:
Reto Odermatt, Chair / wood sculpture delegate
Urs Schwarz, basket and wickerwork design delegate
Mario Aeberhard, treasurer

If you would like us to adjust or review your annual statement, we will be happy to do so. Please send us a completed self-declaration by post or e-mail.

Declaration of the vocational training fund as generally mandatory pursuant to Art. 60 VPETA (in German)
These are also available to view on the website of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

Federal Council Decree on the Declaration of General Application (including regulations) (in German)

Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (in German)

Declaration form (in German)

Sig.Swiss Label