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

In accordance with the provisions of the Pharmacy Law no. 266/2008 in its consolidated form as published in the Official Gazette no. 448/30.06.2009 Part I, as well as the Implementation Norms published in the 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 new pharmaceutical unit establishments, as well as changes of chief pharmacist - for those who will take over the position), will address the 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 the Decision of the National Council of the C.F.R. no. 1/2007, and revised by Decision no.1 of 15.09.2023.

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 where the applicant is registered;
- The validity of the Current Professional Certificate is 3 months from the date of issuance;
- Within a maximum of 3 days from receipt of the request to issue the Current Professional Certificate, the territorial college will send the College of Pharmacists of Romania the standard request for preparation and issuance of the document;
- Within a maximum of 10 days from receipt of 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 which will create it and send it to the territorial college;
- The territorial college will prepare a Register of records – with identification data of the Current Professional Certificates issued to pharmacists in the respective county – and will hand them to the applicants with a receipt signature.

-The fee for issuing the current professional certificate according to Decision no.1/21.11.2024 is 150 lei.

In order to obtain the Current Professional Certificate, the pharmacist will submit to the territorial college a file which will include the documents attached below.