GR-MANNING-L4.2

Third-country certificates: unilateral recognition and the eight-year review

GR-MANNING-M4 · Foreign certificates · GR-MANNING-M4-A EU endorsement and the three-month grace, third-country recognition, and worked cases for four nationalities.

Non-EU CoCs follow the **EU recognition procedure**. Greece may recognise a country **unilaterally** pending an EU decision, and recognition is reviewed after **eight years** without endorsements. Which countries Greece endorses today is only partly documented.

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