The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of health professionals, individually authorise, where appropriate, nationals of a State other than the Member States of the European Union or the States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who hold evidence of formal qualifications obtained in one of these States and whose professional experience is attested to by any means, to practise the profession of pharmacist.