The Approved European Pharmacy Qualifications Order of Council 2007

Conditions relating to old diplomas granted in respect of training commenced in the former Czechoslovakia, the former Soviet Union or the former Yugoslavia

5.  A diploma to which article 2(2)(b)(ii) applies is only an appropriate European diploma if—

(a) the competent authorities of the relevant European State specified in the appropriate row of column (c) of the table in Schedule 3 have certified that the diploma has, on its territory, the same legal validity as regards access to the practice of pharmacy as the diploma specified in Schedule 2 in respect of their State;

(b) those competent authorities have also certified that the holder of the diploma has been effectively and lawfully engaged in one of the activities (and it must have been a regulated activity) referred to in article 1(2) of the Pharmacy Training Directive in its territory for at least three consecutive years during the five years preceding the date of that certificate; and

(c) the certificates are made available to the Registrar.