Part four: Health professions

Nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area are entitled to practise the profession of pharmacist on the basis of : 1° Evidence of formal qualifications as a pharmacist issued by one of these States in accordance with Community requirements and appearing on a list drawn up by order of the ministers responsible for higher education…

Nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area are also entitled to practise the profession of pharmacist if they hold the following qualifications 1° Evidence of formal qualifications as a pharmacist issued by a Member State or a State which is a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, attesting to training as a…

Where the province of Quebec grants the right to practise their profession on its territory to pharmacists who hold evidence of formal qualifications allowing them to practise in France, holders of evidence of formal qualifications obtained in the province of Quebec may be authorised to practise their profession in France by the Minister responsible for health if arrangements for the recognition of qualifications have been made to this effect, signed…

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…

Notwithstanding article L. 4221-1, persons who hold a diploma, certificate or other qualification mentioned in articles L. 4221-2 to L. 4221-5, but who do not hold one of the nationalities mentioned in article L. 4221-1, as well as French or foreign persons holding a diploma, title or certificate of scientific value attested by the minister responsible for higher education and who have worked for at least three years before 1st…

The Minister for Health may authorise to practise pharmacy in France, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of health professionals, persons who have worked for three years on a contract basis in accordance with the first paragraph of article L. 4221-10 as well as those who do not fulfil this condition but who have both passed the tests mentioned in the second paragraph of the same…

The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, following the opinion of a committee, made up in particular of health professionals, individually authorise, where applicable, in the speciality corresponding to the application for authorisation, to practise pharmacy persons who hold a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications allowing them to practise the profession of pharmacist in the country in…

The maximum number of such authorisations is set, each year and for each category of applicants mentioned in articles L. 4221-9, L. 4221-11 and L. 4221-12, by order of the Minister for Health.

Pharmacists may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which awarded them. He must indicate the place and establishment where he obtained it. In cases where the evidence of formal qualifications from the Member State or State of origin is likely to be confused with evidence of formal qualifications requiring additional training in France, the Conseil national de l’ordre may decide that the pharmacist shall…

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 professionals, individually authorise, where appropriate, nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who hold basic and, where appropriate, specialised training qualifications issued by one of these States…