Chapter I: Practice of the professions of pharmacy technician and hospital pharmacy technician

Pursuant to Article L. 4241-4, any person holding the following diplomas, certificates and titles may practise the profession of pharmacy technician and bear the title of pharmacy technician: 1° Diplôme d’études universitaires scientifiques et techniques, specialising in pharmacy preparation/technician ; 2° Brevet professionnel de préparateur en pharmacie. The provisions of articles D. 612-2 to D. 612-18, D. 613-1 and D. 613-6 of the Education Code apply to the Diplôme d’études…

Preparation for the pharmacy technician vocational diploma (brevet professionnel de préparateur en pharmacie) through apprenticeship or continuing education is open to candidates holding a diploma or qualification included on a list drawn up by order of the ministers responsible for education and health. By decision of the Minister of Education, preparation for the vocational diploma in pharmacy preparation may be open to candidates holding foreign diplomas. An order of the…

Candidates for the “brevet professionnel de préparateur en pharmacie” must, on the date on which they sit the examination as a whole or the last unit entitling them to the award of the diploma, provide proof of : – two years of professional activity in a dispensing pharmacy, a mutualist pharmacy, a pharmacy of a mining rescue society or an internal-use pharmacy of a health establishment ; – and eight…

Candidates preparing for the pharmacy assistant vocational diploma through continuing vocational training may benefit from a positioning decision issued by the academy rector in application of article D. 337-104 of the Education Code if they can prove that they have studied or worked beyond the conditions set out in articles D. 4241-2 and D. 4241-3 or if they have been exempted from one or more tests or units making up…

Candidates who hold certain French or foreign diplomas or qualifications may be exempted from one or more of the professional tests or units that make up the pharmacy technician vocational diploma (brevet professionnel de préparateur en pharmacie) under the conditions laid down by order of the ministers responsible for education and health.

Candidates providing evidence of professional experience duly certified by the employer, acquired either under the third paragraph of article L. 663 of the present code in its version prior to 22 June 2000, or by holders of a pharmacist’s diploma as a contractual assistant practitioner, associate attaché, associate generalist assistant, intern or acting intern, may apply for the issue of the professional diploma of pharmacy assistant under the conditions provided…

The following are laid down for the pharmacy technician vocational certificate by order of the ministers responsible for education and health: 1° The constituent units of the certification reference framework ; 2° The list of diplomas allowing access to the training; 3° The examination regulations; 4° The definition of one-off examinations ; 5° The assessment situations for in-training tests.

The “brevet professionnel de préparateur en pharmacie” is awarded after deliberation by a jury set up for each examination session within an academic or interacademic framework. The selection board is appointed by the academy rector, after consultation with the director general of the regional health agency for the appointment of representatives of pharmacists and pharmacy assistants. It is chaired by a general inspector of education, sport and research or by…

Any person claiming the benefit of article L. 4241-9 must submit an application in duplicate to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency for the region in which he practises or last practised his profession: 1° A birth certificate or a copy of a valid national identity card or passport; 2° A certificate from the pharmacist or pharmacists who employed her or them, stating the date on which she…

Each candidate’s file is sent to the pharmacy inspectorate, which sends the list of beneficiaries to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. In accordance with the conditions laid down in article L. 4241-9, the Director General grants authorisation to continue to work as a pharmacy assistant, with the rights, prerogatives and obligations attached to this status. The holder of the authorisation thus issued shall register it with the…