The Europass Accreditation status with its list of accreditation statuses allows the determination of whether the accreditation status of an institution / programme is settled, pending review, obsolete, etc. It is part of the Europass vocabularies. It is part of the Europass vocabularies that set out a framework developed to support the transparency and understanding of skills and qualifications. The Europass Accreditation status is maintained by DG EMPL and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.