I.-The pharmacist working in a dispensary, a mutualist pharmacy or a dispensing chemist may prescribe and administer the vaccines mentioned in the decrees provided for respectively by 9° and 9° bis of article L. 5125-1-1 A to persons whose age conditions and, where applicable, pathologies are specified by these same decrees.
He declares his activity of administering or prescribing and administering vaccines, by any means that provides a date certain on receipt of the declaration, to the competent authority of the pharmacists’ association to which he belongs.
II – The declaration must state the pharmacist’s first and last names and identification number in the sectorial reference register of natural persons referred to in article L. 1470-4.
If the pharmacist has not received training in the administration or prescription of vaccines as part of his initial training, the declaration must be accompanied by a training certificate issued by a training organisation or structure that complies with the educational objectives set by order of the Minister for Health, enabling the pharmacist to know, in particular, for prescribing, the characteristics of vaccine-preventable diseases, the traceability of vaccinations and the main recommendations of the vaccination calendar and, for administration, the normative framework and public health objectives of vaccination, injection methods and post-injection monitoring.
When the pharmacist has already completed training in the administration of vaccines, provided by a training organisation or structure that complies with the educational objectives and conditions laid down in the order issued in application of the previous paragraph, or the specific training in vaccination against covid-19 provided under the conditions laid down in application of law no. 2020-546 of 11 May 2020 extending the state of health emergency and supplementing its provisions or law no. 2021-689 of 31 May 2021 relating to the management of the end of health crises, he/she is exempt from following the part of the training relating to the administration of vaccines. In this case, the declaration must be accompanied by a certificate of completion of one or other of these training courses.
III -Where the pharmacy complies with the specifications relating to the technical conditions for carrying out vaccination activities, the content of which is set by order of the Minister for Health, the activity of administering or prescribing and administering vaccines may begin as soon as the declaration referred to in I has been received.