BSBDES402 Interpret and respond to a design brief

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBDES402 ended on 14 April 2021 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 April 2022 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
14 April 2021
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2015
Supersedes
BSBDES402A
Superseded by
CUADES412 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. BSBDES402Superseded — equivalentInterpret and respond to a design brief
  2. equivalent
  3. CUADES412CurrentInterpret and respond to a design brief

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • BSBDES402ABSBDES402equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBDES402CUADES412equivalent15 April 2021

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is BSBDES402 on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

Where BSBDES402 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBDES402 inside 15 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBDES402 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES402 is
ICT41119Certificate IV in Telecommunications Network DesignQualificationelective

Products no longer current 14 listed

The register still records BSBDES402 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES402 is
CUA40415Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40715Certificate IV in DesignQualificationcore
CUA41115Certificate IV in Photography and Photo ImagingQualificationcore
CUA41215Certificate IV in Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUA41315Certificate IV in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA50118Diploma of Professional Writing and EditingQualificationelective
CUA50513Diploma of Live Production DesignQualificationelective
CUA50715Diploma of Graphic DesignQualificationelective
CUA51015Diploma of Screen and MediaQualificationelective
Show the remaining 4 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES402 is
CUA51115Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
ICP40815Certificate IV in ePublishingQualificationelective
ICT41115Certificate IV in Telecommunications Network DesignQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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