EPhEU (European Association of Employed community Pharmacists in Europe) is the first European-wide organisation representing the interests of employed community pharmacists.
Who are we?Employed community Pharmacists in Europe c/o Verband Angestellter
Apotheker Österreichs (VAAÖ)
Berufliche Interessenvertretung
Spitalgasse 31/4, 1090 Vienna
Austria
EPhEU (European Association of Employed Community Pharmacists in Europe) is the first European-wide organisation representing the interests of employed community pharmacists.
For national professional associations in member states of the European Union, it has become absolutely necessary to look across their national borders: for organisations representing the interests of employed community pharmacists, the European fundamental principles for regulations on working time, for studying pharmacy and for continuing professional development of pharmacists are as important, as the regulations about the freedom of establishment, the recognition of the professional qualification and those about distance selling.
Since 2014, EPhEU is Observer member of FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation).
1. Advocate and protect the interests of community employee pharmacists.
2. Promoting and developing communication and sharing experiences and collaboration between community pharmacists as well as their representative organisations across Europe.
3. Improving health outcomes by advancing pharmacy education, practice, pharmaceutical care, population health and health promotion.
FranceEPhEU
As of January 1, 2024, there are 74 219 pharmacists registered with the Order (+0,6 % compared to January 1, 2023). This figure has increased by 1,8 % over the past ten years. The...
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While member states may set rules for access to professions, the TFEU guarantees the free movement of labour and services and freedom of establishment within the EU single market. In...
CroatiaEPhEU
This June, the vibrant city of Zagreb hosted the European Association of Employed Community Pharmacists (EPhEU) for our semi-annual Executive Board meeting. Held at the Hotel Dubrovnik,...
NorwayEPhEU
The Norwegian state wants all state employees to enter the same collective agreement. That will give state employed pharmacists worse salary development than the existing...
NorwayEPhEU
Norwegian pharmacies are mainly run as private enterprises. Only the hospital pharmacies are owned by the public sector (Regional Health Authorities). Nevertheless, the pharmacies are...
NorwayEPhEU
The new directorate assumes more tasks and a greater responsibility, especially related to supply security and emergency preparedness, procurement and public financing of medical products....
EPhEU
EPhEU (Employed community Pharmacists in Europe) is supporting World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) which runs from 18 – 24 November 2023. WAAW is an annual, global campaign that aims to...
CroatiaEPhEU
Progressus is a new Croatian association of pharmacists dedicated to empowering the colleagues in community pharmacies. As our mission, values and goals are compatible with the EPhEU, one of...
EUEPhEU
Leaders from the pharmacy sector gathered for the 11th General Assembly of the EPhEU Employed Community Pharmacists in Europe. Over the two-day conference, we held from the 26th to the 27th...
Germany
Across Germany, pharmacy employees and pharmacy managers protested on 14 June 2023 for a strengthening of community pharmacies as well as for fair remuneration - and thus for greater margins...
Following the statues of EPHEU there are two types of members: Ordinary members and Observer members.
All members are entitled to take part in the General Assembly. Only Ordinary Members are entitled to vote.
Only legal entities, which are national professional organizations representing employed community pharmacists, may be admitted as Ordinary Members of the Association. These organisations must have their seat in Europe.
Observer Members are natural persons or legal entities under private or public law, which promote the activities of EPhEU, but can neither be themselves an Ordinary Member, nor be represented by an Ordinary Member following these statutes.
Polish Trade Union of Pharmacy Workers
(Związek Zawodowy Pracowników Farmacji, ZZPF)
