Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

No person may practise the profession of pharmacist unless he offers every guarantee of professional morality and meets the following conditions: 1° They hold a diploma, certificate or other qualification mentioned in articles L. 4221-2 to L. 4221-5 ; 2° Be a French national, an Andorran citizen, a national of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or a…

Notwithstanding 1° of article L. 4221-1, the Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion, after consulting the Conseil National de l’Ordre des Pharmaciens, may authorise individuals to practise pharmacy temporarily as part of specialised training in France at approved training centres for interns, provided that they meet the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat relating to the duration, procedures…

Subject to the provisions of articles L. 4221-4 and L. 4221-5, the diplomas, certificates or other evidence of formal qualifications mentioned in 1° of article L. 4221-1 are the French State diploma of doctor of pharmacy or pharmacist.

Diplomas validated by the Government are treated in the same way as a State-issued pharmacist’s diploma for the practice of pharmacy in the départements of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle.

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…