Part four: Health professions

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, grant individual authorisation to practise the profession of pharmacy assistant to nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who, without possessing the diploma provided for in Article L. 4241-4, hold : 1° Evidence of formal qualifications issued by one…

Pharmacy assistants may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the evidence of formal qualifications of the Member State or Party of origin is liable to be confused with evidence of formal qualifications requiring additional training in France, the competent authority may decide that the pharmacy technician shall use the…

Persons authorised to practise the profession of pharmacy assistant in application of the provisions prior to 8 July 1977 enjoy, for life, the rights and prerogatives defined in articles L. 4241-1 and L. 4243-1. The “brevet de préparateur” obtained before 31st December 1985, by persons preparing on 1st January 1978 the said “brevet” and by those who began an apprenticeship within twelve months of this date, confers the rights and…

By way of derogation from article L. 4241-1, pharmacy students regularly enrolled in the third year of studies in a pharmaceutical sciences training and research unit are authorised, for the purpose of further training, to carry out the operations mentioned in the said article outside university working hours, provided that they have first completed the pharmacy internship provided for by the provisions in force. Persons belonging to the health reserve…

A pharmacy technician who is a national of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who is established and legally practises the activities of a pharmacy technician in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, may perform professional acts in France on a temporary and occasional basis. Where the…

When the licence to practice or the declaration of provision of services is issued, the pharmacy technician must have the language skills required to practice the profession and the knowledge of the systems of weights and measures used in France. The language proficiency test must be proportionate to the activity to be carried out and must be carried out once the professional qualification has been recognised.

Any person holding a diploma, certificate or qualification awarded following training which has enabled them to acquire the skills required to practise this profession and which is included on a list drawn up by the ministers responsible for health and higher education may practise the profession of hospital pharmacy assistant in public health establishments, army hospitals and other elements of the army health service and bear the title of hospital…

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of hospital pharmacy assistant, nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who, without possessing the diploma provided for in Article L. 4241-13, hold : 1° Evidence of formal qualifications issued by one or…

Hospital pharmacy assistants may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. In the event that the evidence of formal qualifications of the Member State or Party of origin is liable to be confused with evidence of formal qualifications requiring additional training in France, the competent authority may decide that the hospital…

Hospital pharmacy assistants who are nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and who are established and legally practising the activities of hospital pharmacy assistants in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may perform professional acts in France on a temporary and occasional basis. Where the…