This document was drawn up and recently completed by a national working group consisting of university guidance experts and some representatives of the ministries of education and higher education. Its contents cover the following:

• Caracterization de la orientacion y del sistema nacional de orientacion
• Bases legales
• Mision, vision, objetivos, valores declarados
• Organizacion: subsistemas, programas y servicios
• Perfil del profesional de la orientacion.

It is the first such document received from Latin America, thanks to Dr Olga Oliveros of the University of Carabobo, a member of the working group.