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Member States shall ensure that the qualified person referred to in Article 21 fulfils the following minimum conditions of qualification: (a) Possession of a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications awarded on completion of a university course of study, or a course recognized as equivalent by the Member State concerned, extending over a period of at least four years of theoretical and practical study in one of the following scientific disciplines : pharmacy, medicine, veterinary medicine, chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, biology. However: - the minimum duration of the university course may be three and a half years where the course is followed by a period of theoretical and practical training of a minimum duration of one year and including a training period of at least six months in a pharmacy open to the public, corroborated by an examination at university level; Applied physics General and inorganic chemistry Organic chemistry Analytical chemistry Pharmaceutical chemistry, including analysis of medicinal products General and applied biochemistry (medical) Physiology Microbiology Pharmacology Pharmaceutical technology Toxicology Pharmacognosy (medical aspects) (study of the composition and effects of the active principles of natural substances of plant and animal origin). Studies in these subjects should be so balanced as to enable the person concerned to fulfil the obligations specified in Article 22. In so far as certain diplomas, certificates or other evidence of formal qualifications mentioned in (a) do not fulfil the criteria laid down above, the competent authority of the Member State shall ensure that the person concerned provides evidence of adequate knowledge of the subjects involved.
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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.