French Public Health Code
In forceI.-The review of a final decision of the Disciplinary Chamber of First Instance or the National Disciplinary Chamber imposing a temporary ban, with or without a suspended sentence, or a permanent ban on practising may be requested by the pharmacist who is the subject of the sanction:
1° If he or she was convicted on the basis of false evidence or the written or oral testimony of a person subsequently prosecuted and convicted for giving false testimony against the practitioner;
2° If he or she was convicted for failing to produce a decisive piece of evidence that was retained by the opposing party;
3° If, after the decision has been handed down, a fact occurs or comes to light or when evidence, unknown at the time of the proceedings, is produced that is likely to establish the pharmacist's innocence.
II.The appeal must be lodged with the Chamber that handed down the decision whose review is requested within two months of the day on which the pharmacist became aware of the grounds for review that he is invoking, in the same form as that in which the initial application had to be lodged.
This appeal does not have suspensive effect.
Where the application for review is admissible, the Chamber shall declare the contested decision null and void and shall rule again on the initial application.
The provisions of sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this chapter shall apply.
Decisions on applications for review may not be appealed.
They may be appealed to the Conseil d'Etat.
Once a first appeal for review has been decided, a second appeal against the same decision is not admissible.
