In Berlin September 2003 Ministers with responsibility for Higher Education decided to “encourage the member States to elaborate a framework of comparable and compatible qualifications for their higher education systems. They also undertake to elaborate an overarching framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area”. Further on they invited “the Follow Up Group to explore whether and how shorter higher education may be linked to the first cycle of a qualifications framework for the EHEA”. The chairman of the Bologna working group will explore the concept of a national qualifications framework, of an overarching framework and report from the ongoing work in the working group.