Subsection 4: Procedure

Unless the provisions of article R. 4234-3 are applied, the complaint or application and the attached documents are communicated in their entirety to the parties in copy form. Where the volume, number or characteristics of the documents produced make it impossible to produce copies, the parties are invited to consult them at the court registry. The communication invites the parties to produce a statement of case and all relevant documents…

The parties shall be informed that they may be represented or assisted by a lawyer. However, pharmacists, whether they are plaintiffs, claimants or the subject of the proceedings, may be assisted either by a lawyer or by a colleague entered on one of the Rolls of the Association, or by both. This colleague may not be a member of a Council of the Bar. The President of the National Council…

The president of the central or regional council on whose register the pharmacist is entered at the date on which the disciplinary proceedings are commenced or, failing this, the council on whose register he was last entered, will receive the pleadings and documents produced by the parties. The President of this Council may submit observations in the number and within the time required in the communication. These are communicated to…

Where the complaint or submissions are inadmissible on grounds that can be remedied in the course of the proceedings, the court may reject them by noting the inadmissibility of its own motion until it has invited the party submitting them to put them in order. However, the National Disciplinary Chamber may reject such submissions without first requesting them to be put in order in the event of inadmissibility arising from…

Articles R. 611-2 to R. 611-5 of the Code of Administrative Justice relating to the communication of pleadings and exhibits, the first paragraph of article R. 611-7 relating to the grounds raised ex officio, article R. 611-8-1 relating to the summary pleading and articles R. 613-1, with the exception of its last sentence, to R. 613-4 relating to the closure of the investigation are applicable before the Disciplinary Board of…