Convention on the Exercise of Liberal Professions of 1939

The Convention on the Exercise of Liberal Professions of 1939 (Spanish: Convención sobre el Ejercicio de Profesiones Liberales de 1939) is a treaty signed in the Second South American Congress of Private International Law of 1939 and 1940 in Montevideo, by which allows holders of an academic degree obtained in a public education institution of a state party to validate their degrees in another state party provided that the degree keeps a reasonable equivalence with the corresponding one in the second state. This treaty updates the provisions of the Convention on the Exercise of Liberal Professions of 1889, and binds Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.^[2]

Convention on the Exercise of Liberal Professions

Type	Validation of foreign degrees treaty
Context	Second South American Congress of Private International Law
Signed	August 4, 1939 (1939-08-04)
Location	Montevideo, Uruguay
Condition	For each signatory country upon deposit of its instrument of ratification in accordance with article 5 of the Convention [1]
Signatories	Argentina Bolivia Paraguay Peru Uruguay
Ratifiers	Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
Depositary	Ministry of Foreign Relations (Uruguay) [1]
Language	Spanish

Parties

State	Signed	Approved	Deposit	Effective
Argentina	4 August 1939 [1]	26 January 1963 (Decreto-Ley N° 468/1963) [3]	29 March 1963 (ratification) [1]	Yes
Bolivia	4 August 1939 [1]	(not approved)	-	No
Paraguay	4 August 1939 [1]	19 July 1955 (Ley N° 266/1955) [4]	29 January 1958 (ratification) [1]	Yes
Peru	4 August 1939 [1]	(not approved)	-	No
Uruguay	4 August 1939 [1]	22 December 1942 (Decreto-Ley N° 10272) [5]	22 December 1942 (ratification)	Yes