New Continuing Professional Development Requirements Now in Effect
APEGA’s revised Continuing Professional Development practice standard has been published and is in effect starting November 1, 2025. In addition, the new Personal Annual Competency Evaluation practice guideline has been published, which provides recommended best practices for how licensed professionals should document their Personal Annual Competency Evaluation (PACE) plans and CPD activities under the revised standard. APEGA has also published a PACE plan template to help users follow these best practices.
The CPD requirements apply to all practising professional members, professional licensees, and licensees. They do not apply to life members, members-in-training, non-practising licensed professionals, students, or examination candidates.
These requirements will be assigned to each licensed professional on their next annual renewal date. CPD compliance will be reviewed after a licensed professional has completed one full reporting period under the new requirements.
The revised standard no longer includes activity-based CPD reporting requirements, which ended on October 18, 2025. Any remaining CPD hours that were added after the last submission period have been automatically submitted, and CPD compliance will not be assessed for any partial periods. Licensed professionals can view their CPD history by logging in to myAPEGA and clicking the CPD History tab.
New CPD requirements
Under the revised practice standard, every year licensed professionals must:
- complete mandatory online learning modules in myAPEGA
- create and follow a PACE plan and maintain their own CPD documentation
- unless requested, PACE plans do not need to be submitted to APEGA
- declare that they have maintained and followed their PACE plan
For more information about the revised standard and new CPD requirements, please visit our resource page on apega.ca.