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

In accordance with the provisions of Pharmacy Law no. 266/2008 as consolidated and published in the Official Gazette no. 448/30.06.2009 Part I, as well as the Application Rules 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 establishment of new pharmaceutical units, as well as changes of the chief pharmacist - for those who will take over the position), must 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 Decision of the National Council of C.F.R. no. 1/2007, 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 where 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 the receipt of the request for issuing the Current Professional Certificate, the territorial college will send to the College of Pharmacists of Romania the standard application for preparing and issuing the document;
- Within a maximum of 30 days from the receipt of the application, 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 Register of records—with the identification data of the Current Professional Certificates issued to pharmacists in that county—and will hand them over to the applicants under signature of receipt.

The fee for issuing the Current Professional Certificate, in the amount of 100 lei, shall be paid into the account of the territorial College RO45BRDE410SV26208314100.

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

​The necessary documents for requesting the current professional certificate can be found at:

https://www.cfbucuresti.ro/farmacisti/formulare.​