This piece is a bit confused but draws attention to an important point.
https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1330407031719813120
The SI it refers to revokes the recognition *in the UK* of the EU common ski instructor test: legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1038… (see (a)).
But - obviously - that doesn’t affect anything happening in the EU. The reason why training UK national ski instructors have to get their Eurotest qualification in December is that as a matter of EU law the regulation setting up that test applies only to EU nationals. 
Now, the UK has proposed a generous regime for mutual recognition of qualifications (MRQ): see Chapter 13 of the draft UK text of an FTA. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
But that is one of several aspects of the UK’s position that gives the lie to the “But we only want a 🇨🇦 deal” protestations of the current government. And it isn’t clear what is going to be agreed here.
If there is no FTA, or no FTA including MRQ, that will be because the current government has decided to sacrifice MRQ on the altar of its ideological obsessions with eg subsidy control.
Also NB that MRQ wouldn’t help young Brits who want to work in the French ski industry over the winter: your qualification may be recognised, but without agreement on mobility, you won’t be able to get a work permit.
https://twitter.com/georgeperetzqc/status/1330470227763716102
But another straw in the wind in favour of this conclusion.
https://twitter.com/GeorgePeretzQC/status/1330470874311438337
NB: my family’s resident expert in skiing qualifications tells me that most EU countries recognise various international ski instructor qualifications. Except - as you might have guessed - France.
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