(1) Whoever has acquired the knowledge of an editor by training for at
least one year (editor in apprenticeship) with the editorial staff of a
German newspaper or an establishment of the kind mentioned in Section
4 and can prove this by certificate to the editorial staff will be
considered as professionally trained. The apprenticeship served with a
foreign newspaper may be made equivalent to the apprenticeship served
with a German paper by means of the implementation order.
(2) The provisions of this law also pertain to the editors in
apprenticeship with the exception of Section 5, Subsections 4, 5, and 6.