Bacau Pharmacists College*

Regarding the Current Professional Certificate, we would like to make the following clarifications:

In accordance with the provisions of the Pharmacy Law no. 266/2008 in its consolidated form as published in Official Gazette no. 448/30.06.2009, Part I, as well as the Implementation Norms published in Official Gazette no. 538/03.07.2009, Part I, pharmacists who will hold the position of chief pharmacist in a pharmaceutical unit (in cases of establishment of new pharmaceutical units, as well as changes of the chief pharmacist - for those who will take over the position), must contact county colleges to obtain the Current Professional Certificate.

Also, this document is necessary for pharmacists who wish to practice their profession outside the country's borders.

The methodology for preparing and issuing the Current Professional Certificate was established by Decision of the National Council of the C.F.R. no. 1/2007, decision published in the Official Gazette of Romania Part I no. 324 of 15.05.2007.

Below we present the main provisions of Decision no. 1/2007, as follows:
- The Current Professional Certificate will be prepared by the College of Pharmacists of Romania and issued by the territorial college at which the applicant is registered;

- The validity of the Current Professional Certificate is 3 months from the date of issue;

- Within a maximum of three days from receiving the request to issue the Current Professional Certificate, the territorial college will send to the College of Pharmacists of Romania the standard request for preparing and issuing the document;

- Within a maximum of 30 days from receiving the request, the C.F.R. will prepare the certificate and send it to the territorial college;

- The Current Professional Certificate will be issued by the College of Pharmacists of Romania who will prepare and send it to the territorial college;
- The territorial college will prepare a Record Register – with the identification data of Current Professional Certificates issued to pharmacists in the respective county – and will hand them over to applicants with a signature upon receipt.

The fee for issuing the Current Professional Certificate, in the amount of 100 lei, must be paid into the account of the territorial college.

The suspension of membership status occurs when the applicant, the pharmacist, for certain reasons wishes to interrupt their activity for a certain period of time and submits to the headquarters of the Territorial College, respectively the College of Pharmacists Bucharest, a request by which they ask for the suspension of their membership status. At the time of requesting this suspension, the pharmacist must have the membership fee paid until the end of the year and must meet the condition of continuous professional training through a number of 40 EFC hours for the respective period.

The pharmacist is obliged to inform the College of Pharmacists of Romania within 30 days of resuming activity.

Resuming membership status is done based on a request, which the applicant, the pharmacist, submits at the headquarters of the territorial College, respectively the College of Pharmacists Bucharest, through which they request the resumption of membership status starting from a certain date.

The membership certificate is granted to pharmacists who, upon making a formal request in this regard, meet the following conditions: they hold an official pharmacy qualification, are not in any of the cases of unworthiness or incompatibility provided by law, are medically fit to practice the profession of pharmacist, have not interrupted the practice of the profession for more than 5 years or have obtained their bachelor's degree in the last 5 years, have paid the registration fee (the fee is paid into the account of the territorial college and amounts to 208 lei for persons who registered within 1 YEAR from graduation and 235 lei for other persons).

To proceed with the issuance of a duplicate Membership Certificate of the College of Pharmacists of Romania, the applicant must submit the complete documentation at the headquarters of the Bucharest College of Pharmacists, in accordance with the provisions of Decision no. 4/2004 of the National Council of the College of Pharmacists of Romania, the documents listed below.

The transfer note is issued by the college where the pharmacist is registered, based on a request. Before issuing the transfer note, the requesting pharmacist is obliged to pay up to date the fee owed to the college from which they wish to leave. The transfer note will be handed, under signature, to the applicant. In the pharmacists' registry (https://portal.tm-c.eu/LstFarma/ColegFarm), the college to which the pharmacist has been transferred will be mentioned. If, at the level of the college from which the pharmacist is transferring, a complaint has been registered against them or a disciplinary investigation has been initiated, the complaint, respectively the disciplinary file, shall be sent to the college to which the pharmacist is transferring.