French Public Health Code
In forceThe Ordre National des Pharmaciens comprises seven sections into which pharmacists are divided as follows:
Section A: pharmacists who own a pharmacy ;
Section B: pharmacists in charge, as well as their temporary staff, delegates, temporary delegates and assistants working in companies and establishments engaged in the manufacture, import or use of medicinal products or products mentioned in article L. 5124-1 ;
Section C: pharmacists in charge and their interim, delegate, interim delegate and assistant pharmacists working in companies and establishments engaged in the wholesale distribution or export of medicinal products or products mentioned in article L. 5124-1 ;
Section D: assistant pharmacists practising in dispensaries, pharmacists replacing dispensary owners or dispensary managers after their death, mutualist pharmacists and, in general, all pharmacists who are not eligible to be included in one of sections A, B, C, E, G and H, with the exception of pharmacists mentioned in article L. 4222-7;
Section E: all pharmacists practising in French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Wallis and Futuna and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, with the exception of the pharmacists mentioned in article L. 4222-7;
Section G: pharmacists practising in a medical biology laboratory and pharmacists practising medical biology or one of its fields in a health establishment;
Section H: pharmacists working in health or medico-social establishments, departmental and territorial fire and rescue services, tuberculosis clinics, family planning or education centres and the Établissement Français du Sang (French Blood Establishment). Also included in this section are pharmacists not covered by the provisions of article L. 4138-2 of the Defence Code and working in army hospitals, the Institution nationale des invalides, the army blood transfusion centre, the Paris fire brigade and the Marseille marine fire brigade.
