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Article R5125-5 of the French Public Health Code

The initial application may be confirmed until the expiry of a period of two months from notification of the rejection decision or from the formation of this decision when it is implicit. In the meantime, the benefit of the rules of anteriority provided for in article L. 5125-20, attached to the initial application, is retained. For the purposes of grandfathering, the confirmatory application is considered to have been submitted on…

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Article R5125-6 of the French Public Health Code

The rules of priority and precedence provided for in article L. 5125-20 are assessed among applications for the creation or transfer of a pharmacy or the grouping of pharmacies in the same municipality or a grouping of municipalities provided for in article L. 5125-6-1. Prior rights are assessed among applications with the same priority rank, according to the date and time of registration mentioned in article R. 5125-1. In the…

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Article R5125-7 of the French Public Health Code

The decision of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency authorising the creation, transfer or consolidation of a facility is published in the Recueil des actes administratifs of the regional prefecture and, where applicable, of the other competent regional prefectures. The ministerial order authorising the creation, transfer or regrouping of a facility following an appeal is published in the Journal officiel de la République française.

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Article R5125-8 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The surface area, layout, arrangement and equipment of a pharmacy’s premises are appropriate to its activities and enable compliance with the good practices referred to in Article L. 5121-5. The pharmacy’s premises are subject to the provisions of Articles L. 161-1 and L. 162-1 of the French Construction and Housing Code, unless they benefit from an exemption under Article L. 164-3 of the same code, or if they are located…

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Article R5125-9 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The part of the dispensary accessible to the public includes: 1° A clearly delineated area for receiving customers and dispensing medicines, allowing conversations to be held away from third parties; 2° For the specialised activities of opticians, audioprosthetists and orthopaedics, an individualised section and, where appropriate, an area allowing the patient to try out the product under conditions that comply with the provisions of this code. II.- The part of…

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Article R5125-11 of the French Public Health Code

Any change to the conditions under which the pharmacy is set up, relating to the surface area of the premises, the addition or removal of a storage room within the meaning of article R. 5125-8, alterations to the building, or related to the implementation of a new activity, must be declared in advance to the general director of the regional health agency and to the competent council of the national…

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Article R5125-12 of the French Public Health Code

A person who fulfils the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of article L. 5125-2 and intends to practise pharmacy concurrently with one of the professions of doctor, dental surgeon, midwife or veterinary surgeon shall make a declaration to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. In addition to documents proving that the required conditions have been met, the application must include a copy of the undertaking on…

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Article R5125-14 of the French Public Health Code

The provisions of articles R. 5125-15 to R. 5125-24 govern companies formed pursuant to Title I of law no. 90-1258 of 31st December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected, and whose corporate purpose is the joint practice of the profession of dispensing pharmacist. These companies are called “sociétés d’exercice libéral de pharmaciens…

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Article R5125-15 of the French Public Health Code

A société d’exercice libéral de pharmaciens d’officine is formed subject to the condition precedent that it is entered on the roll of the ordre under the conditions set out in articles R. 4222-1 et seq. In the event of the formation of a société d’exercice libéral by way of merger or demerger or resulting from a change in the legal form of the company, it is subject to the provisions…

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