MEPA has set the following guidelines for training visits:

1. Training visits are to be strictly on a mutual basis and approved by the member states concerned.
2. Training visits will be offered only to officers considered future participants of the MEPA annual course, the MEPA border police course or special courses of the MEPA, or to officers who have completed MEPA courses, MEPA seminars or MEPA language courses in their home countries. Their job should also have a direct connection to at least one other MEPA member state at the time of application. As an exception, places on a visit could be offered to police officers not otherwise engaged in MEPA activities if it were considered useful in the context of his of her duties.
3. A training visit will serve to intensify existing contacts with foreign police departments fighting organized crime, to revive these contacts and to find new contacts in view of future courses and cooperation with the MEPA. In their partner state the visitors will be able to discover new operative methods to fight organized crime and compare these to their own.
4. Travel expenses as well as the costs of health and accident insurance for the visit are payable by the department sending the officer to the course. Boarding costs are payable by the host country.
5. As the visits are always mutual, the departments in the home countries of the training visitors (specialist units) are expected to in return accept and take care of guests from other MEPA states. 
6. For the organization of a visit the National Contact Point of the applicant's home country is required to send in to the National Contact Point of the host country the following papers at least 3 months before the beginning of a planned visit:
• Application for a visit, also stating in detail the past/current assignment of the applicant as well as the field he or she is intended to work in
• Department suggested or requested for the visit
• The time proposed for the visit 
• The applicant's CV also stating knowledge of foreign languages
  
7. After the visit has been approved by the host country, the MEPA National Contact Point of this host country will name a contact in the hosting department who will fix the details of the visit directly with the visitor.