Hi all just joined this forum
If anyone is interested I live in Menorca, was qualified in the Uk but still had to go through numerous bearucratic hoops lasting 4 years.
1 The Ministry of Education said it didnt recognise C&G - I believe they have an office in Madrid - I had to provide course sylabuss for everything going back 20 odd years.
2 18 months on I recieved the FP11 Tecnico Superior Qualification.
The end, not bloody likely I then had to take the Installer's exam - In Spanish - they only sit them twice a year here so 6 more months with various spanish wiring regs and other course books and a dictionary.
The End? Still not bloody likely you then have to apply for a Certificate as an Authorised Company if you want to issue your own paperwork.
This involves paying an engineer to say you have an extensive list of test equipment, (including things that cost a lot of euros that you will probably never use), a lock up of at least 25 square metres to store the above equipment and vastly overpriced public liability insurance, (my first year cost me over 800€)
And finally they sit sit on your paperwork for about 6 months then send you a letter saying you have to register self employed before you get an authoriastion number, in the Balearics this costs 254€ a month before you even open a toolbag. Oh and I forgot to mention about all the taxes you pay at every stage of the process.
I reccomend that unless you really really want to work as a spark here its just not worth the hassle:
Just to add the Spanish use REBT2002 which despite the language I found are similar to 7671 in that they use a paragraph to describe a sentance. all you really need to learn are the Spanish terms and you can pretty much understand most of it. The tables and calcs are pretty much the same after all even the Spanish can't change the laws of physics.