RECOGNITION OF ABILITY, INTEGRITY AND COMPETENCE
The commercial diplomat requires all the finesse and knowledge of foreign cultures required by a traditional diplomat. In addition, the commercial diplomat must acquire a wide range of analytical, policy advocacy and interpersonal, critical thinking, public diplomacy, anti-corruption, negotiating and commercial diplomatic skills.

To qualify for accreditation, the applicant must complete the required mandatory qualifying programme. While attaining QPA, QCD or C.Dipl is a challenge, it allows practitioners to remain current with what is new in the commercial diplomatic profession and field of practice, and to incorporate the latest advanced research techniques into their specialism-based expertise and competency-based practices.

Practitioners in any of the advanced mandatory qualifying programmes are preparing themselves for careers in which they will likely be given supervisory or executive responsibilities at senior executive level. They are expected to maintain integrity, demonstrate maturity, civility, probity, exceptional quality, self-discipline and ethical behaviour throughout the period of their Mastership and career. The ACCD-CDRA may cancel a practitioner-candidates application at any time for conduct deemed inconsistent with the integrity expected of an accomplished learned accredited commercial diplomatist. 

Globally-focused and Carefully Structured
The Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programmes give practitioner-candidates the flexibility to expand their skills-based knowledge and skills-specific experience while pursuing their commercial diplomatic career. The strong desire to add a global perspective to a practitioner-candidate's current qualification makes such practitioner an excellent candidate for the Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programmes.

Mandatory Qualifying Programme
Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programme is the most rigorous continuing professional training programme for the career commercial diplomat. A commercial diplomat who has qualified and earned the QPA, QCD or C.Dipl designation has successfully completed a structured mandatory qualifying competency-based examinations (MQCE Essential Examinations) and demanding set of requirements involving aII the required disciplines and proven practical hands-on professional commercial diplomatic experience. 

The aim of the qualifying provisions is to provide for the better impactful regulation and standardization of career commercial diplomats, and to bring them in line with the rest of the global professional institutions and institutional bodies. Only those who can fulfil the criteria of skills-specific knowledge, specialism-based expertise, evidence-based proficiency, competency, dedication, good standing and advanced professional development shall qualify for admission into the commercial diplomatic profession and appointment to the rank and status of, QPA, QCD or C.Dipl, and be referred to as, 'Commercial Diplomatic Advocate', 'Commercial Diplomatic Counsel', or 'Commercial Diplomat Plenipotentiary'. This in sense provides the 'bench mark' for the competent career commercial diplomatist.