EREPS

The European Register of Exercise Professionals

Mission  & Objectives

The European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS) is an independent process for the registration of all instructors, trainers and teachers working across Europe in the exercise and fitness industry. It is a pan-European system, based on independent national registers, culminating in a central European database.

Through its quality assurance process EREPS recognises that exercise professionals are qualified to do their job giving consumers, employers and partners in medical professions the necessary level of confidence in their professionalism and a structure for increased mobility of workers. 

Registration means that an exercise professional has met prescribed minimum standards of good practice, including the adoption of a Code of Ethical Practice and that they are committed to raising standards through a process of continuing professional development.

EREPS is regulated by the European Health & Fitness Association Standards Council using an accepted official European qualification framework which describes the knowledge, skills and competences exercise professionals need to achieve for registration.

EREPS was officially launched during the EHFA 1st European Fitness Forum in Hilversum, the Netherlands, on 7-8 May 2008.  EREPS has started registrations on-line as of the 1st of July 2008.  

The EHFA 2nd European Fitness Forum, called the Central European Fitness Forum (CEFF), is taking place in Prague on 18-19 May 2009.  You will find further detaills regarding the Programme here.

To becomer a member of the European Register of Exercise Professionals, please go to www.ereps.eu

First EREPS member countries

A plan to develop the European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS) was approved during the EHFA Annual General Meeting in Essen on 10 April 2008.  The plan will be rolled out gradually accross Europe over the coming years.

The first two countries who signed a Memorandum of Understanding and became members of EREPS in 2008 are Belgium and the UK.

BELGIUM

Christian Pierar, President of DFO Belgium, and Harm Tegelaars, President of EHFA, on 10 April 2008

UNITED KINGDOM

Stephen Studd, Chief Executive of SkillsActive UK, and HarmTegelaars, EHFA President, on 10 April 2008