Chapter III: Provisions common to the various councils.

The various councils of the Ordre national des pharmaciens have legal personality. They are represented by their president in all civil acts. They authorise their president to take legal action. They may, before all courts, exercise all the rights reserved to civil parties in relation to acts directly or indirectly prejudicial to the collective interests of the pharmaceutical profession, including in the case of threats or violence committed because of…

The duties of a member of one of the councils of the ordre and those of a member of one of the boards of directors of a pharmaceutical union or a regional union of health professionals are incompatible.

The principles governing elections to the various councils of the Ordre des pharmaciens are laid down by decree. An electoral regulation drawn up by the national council of the order lays down the procedures. After each election, the minutes of the election are notified without delay to the central council concerned, the national council, the director general of the regional health agency and the minister responsible for health. The elections…

Employers or, in the case of public sector employees, the hierarchical authority, are required to allow their employees or agents who are members of a council of the Bar, the time necessary to attend and participate in meetings of this council, its committees or its disciplinary chambers. The employee must inform the employer or the hierarchical authority of the meeting as soon as he is aware of it. Time spent…

The duties of a member of the National Council, of a Central or Regional Council or of a delegation of Section E are performed on a voluntary basis. However, the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of a Council and the members of the National Council, a Central or Regional Council or a delegation may receive allowances, the terms and conditions of which are laid down by decree. The Councils shall reimburse…

Subject to articles L. 4232-4, L. 4232-6, L. 4232-13 and L. 4232-14, the members of the councils and delegations of the Ordre des pharmaciens are elected by a single-ballot majority system. Each pair is made up of titular candidates of different sexes, who each stand with their alternates, of the same sex. By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, when the number of pharmacists of the same sex registered…

Except where they are constituted as a disciplinary chamber, the deliberations of the councils of the ordre may be adopted by means of an electronic or audiovisual conference, under the conditions laid down by Order no. 2014-1329 of 6 November 2014 on remote deliberations by administrative bodies of a collegiate nature and Decree no. 2014-1627 of 26 December 2014 on the procedures for organising remote deliberations by administrative bodies of…

The councils may rule in restricted formation in matters of registration, striking off and temporary suspension of the right to practise in the event of the professional’s infirmity or pathological condition making it dangerous to practise his profession, and temporary suspension, total or partial, of the right to practise in the event of professional inadequacy making it dangerous to practise his profession.

No person may be a candidate for election as a member of a Board if he or she has reached the age of seventy-one by the closing date for receipt of nomination papers.

If the number of vacant seats on a Council or Delegation is such that a quorum is no longer required, the President of the National Council or, in the case of the Regional Councils or Delegations, the President of the Central Council, or the oldest member of the Council or Delegation may authorise, by way of exception, the members still in office, on the one hand, to hold new elections,…