Informative Notice
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Professional co-worker for advertising of medicinal products
The holder of the marketing authorisation has a professional division for advertising medicinal products with professional co-workers for advertising medicinal products to the expert public. The professional persons for advertising medicinal products advertise: to persons who prescribe or issue medicinal products; to health-care workers when advertising involves medicinal products for which the marketing authorisation of the authorisation of the health-care programmes provider shows that appropriate provision of information or training of the patient within the scope of health care or the training of health-care workers is required for the safe and appropriate administering of the medicinal product.
Advertising of medicinal products to the expert public is performed by professional co-workers in accordance with valid regulations. Professional co-workers for advertising medicinal products must have an appropriate education and be entered in the register of professional co-workers for advertising which is managed by the relevant authority.
Conditions
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Professional assistants for medicinal products must hold:
- a secondary level of education in pharmacy, medicine, veterinary medicine or a level of education compliant as per the law or another secondary level of education, or
- a level of education compliant as per the law and which demonstrates knowledge on the functioning of human or animal organisms and additional knowledge in the field of medicinal products as per the applicable classification of occupations.
Evidence
Diploma - certified copy or non-certified copy and the original provided on request. Certificate of additional knowledge
Legal basis
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Before advertising medicinal products, the holders of the marketing authorisation must notify the relevant authority on expert co-workers for advertising of medicinal products for the entry in the register of expert co-workers for advertising medicinal products which is managed by the relevant authority.
The authority publishes data from the register in accordance with regulations on personal data protection.
The notification for the entry in the register as per the previous paragraph contains the following data:
- the name and address of the holder of the marketing authorisation and the name, surname and professional education of the expert co-workers for the advertising of medicinal products.
The holder of the marketing authorisation must notify each change of expert co-workers for the advertising of medicinal products to the competent authority.
Recognition of qualifications acquired abroad
There are following systems for the recognition of professional qualifications acquired in the EU: