When Germany creates or modernizes a training occupation, the new rules are drafted by experts from practice. The employers’ organizations and the unions nominate them. A procedure starts only when the employers and the unions of the industry agree. Without major disagreements it takes about two years. The employers’ federation BDA sums it up: Ordnungsarbeit ist Konsensarbeit – und zwar auf allen Ebenen. (Regulation work is consensus work, at every level.) The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training writes that this consensus principle has proven itself over decades. Once the regulation is issued, it binds every company in the country. The Vocational Training Act says: Für einen anerkannten Ausbildungsberuf darf nur nach der Ausbildungsordnung ausgebildet werden. (For a recognized training occupation, training may follow only the training regulation.)