Questão jurídica principal
Whether the refusal of university admission based on the foreign qualification was lawful under the Lissabon Convention
Decisão extraída
Art. IV.1 of the Lissabon Convention is directly applicable; the lower court used too strict a standard and must reassess whether a substantial difference exists in the individual case.
Fundamentação extraída
The Convention is designed around acceptance of foreign qualifications; the burden lies with the authority to show substantial differences. General equivalence is the rule, exceptions require a significant, case-specific difference.