Persons authorised to practise medicine temporarily in application of article L. 4131-4 may apply for authorisation to practise in a specialty at the earliest at the end of the first year of practice and at the latest in the year following the last period of temporary authorisation to practise granted. They are deemed to have passed the knowledge verification tests provided for in article L. 4111-2. The Minister in charge of health decides on this application after receiving the opinion of a committee, the composition of which is set by decree.