Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists

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The Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists is the legal professional representation of the more than 5,700 pharmacists who work in Austria .

tasks

The public corporation assumes sovereign tasks. There is compulsory membership.

The Chamber of Pharmacists represents and promotes the interests of its members primarily through:

  • Assessment of draft laws and ordinances
  • Opinions on health issues
  • Expert opinion
  • Education campaigns on health issues, prevention, etc.
  • Press conferences and statements
  • Dialogues with citizens and politicians
  • Discussions with a wide variety of organizations and groups in the healthcare sector
  • Active European work
  • Data collection and processing
  • Economic negotiations with social partners

Tasks and services for members include:

  • Modern training, further education and training
  • Monitoring the fulfillment of professional duties ( disciplinary law )
  • Press work, public relations (PR)
  • Advice on all legal issues and economic advice
  • Hospital pharmacy matters and drug information
  • Combating unfair competition
  • Night and on-call duty regulations
  • Aspirant training and examination
  • Issuance of confirmations and IDs
  • Quality controls in our own laboratory

Legal basis

The Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists was set up by the Federal Act of June 18, 1947, Federal Law Gazette No. 152, as the legal professional representation of the pharmacists. Your sphere of activity extends to the entire federal territory. There are regional offices in the individual federal states. The Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists is the legal representation of the interests of both self-employed and employed pharmacists.

history

The Pharmacies Act, which was passed on December 18, 1906 with the consent of both houses of the Reichsrat, contained in Section 63 the decree that pharmacists' chambers should be set up to represent the pharmacy class, including the conditioning pharmacists, in all kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat. The sphere of activity and the organization of these chambers should be regulated by a special law. On January 2, 1907, the Minister of the Interior issued an ordinance on the appointment of committees of conditioning pharmacists on the basis of Section 63 (3) of the Pharmacies Act - until the pharmacists' chambers were established . This fulfilled the assistant's wish for an official representation on the committees. It took another 40 years to set up the Chamber of Pharmacists. The reasons for this lay among other things in the resistance of the chambers of commerce - the pharmacy owners were members of the chambers of commerce - in the difficulties in the nationality question, because there was resistance in the crown lands to the amalgamation of pharmacists of different nations and different languages ​​in a common chamber, in the Government drafts of the Ministry of the Interior in 1909 (too similar to the committee regulations) or the Ministry of Social Affairs in the 1st Republic (differences between the two groups etc.). Other causes were the First World War or the fact that, according to the Federal Constitutional Act 1920, the affairs of the professional associations were a matter for the state and the establishment of a pharmacists' association in each federal state was not considered financially viable. Only after the amendment to the B-VG in 1929 was it permissible to set up a chamber for the whole of Germany. However, since a rapid laws were adopted because of differences of opinion between the employees and the self-employed was not possible, the dissolution of parliament prevented on March 4, 1933 the connection to the German Reich 1938 - all Austrian pharmacists, employees and owners who were in the German Pharmacists incorporated - and the Second World War a pharmacists law.

The Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists was therefore only established by the Federal Act of June 18, 1947, Federal Law Gazette No. 152, as the legal professional representation of pharmacists. The Pharmacists' Association Act was announced in the Federal Law Gazette on August 21, 1947. The first election of the Chamber of Pharmacists - the first election of a public-law professional body in the new Austria - took place in 1948; it was concluded on June 13, 1948 with an extraordinarily high turnout. The Board of Directors was constituted on June 24, 1948.

laboratory

To support quality assurance in public pharmacies, the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists operates its own GMP-certified laboratory. It is a point of contact for Austrian pharmacists to check drug quality. The pharmacist laboratory covers the following areas:

  • Examination of starting materials and herbal medicinal products for pharmacopoeia quality, according to the valid, validated procedures of the pharmacopoeias (official pharmacopoeias )
  • Examination of medicinal specialties, especially for active ingredient content or, if applicable, for uniformity of active ingredient content
  • Elaboration of test specifications and their validation
  • Elaboration of monographs for herbal medicinal products and medicinal preparations as well as essential oils for the European Pharmacopoeia as a member of an expert group of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines EDQM in Strasbourg
  • Revision of monographs of the Austrian Pharmacopoeia
  • Official disposal of addictive substances in accordance with the decree of the Federal Ministry of Health
  • Assistance for public pharmacies with identity checks of pharmaceuticals, customer complaints and visitation problems
  • Carrying out round robin tests (is a method of external quality assurance): Checking the quality of magistral preparations in public pharmacies.

Library

The pharmacist's house in Vienna houses the oldest and one of the most important specialist pharmaceutical libraries in the German-speaking area. With its holdings, it reflects the spirit, scientific endeavors and the position of the profession in public life. The library was founded in 1802 by pharmacist Josef Moser in the form of an association called the »Pharmaceutical-Chemical Reading Community« . This became the Gremial Library in 1814. Since November 1908, the library of the Vienna Pharmacists Main Committee, now the library of the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists, has been on the 2nd floor.

Apothecary house

In 1908 the "Apothekerhaus" was built at Spitalgasse 31 in Vienna's 9th district . On November 25, 1908, the »General Austrian Pharmacists' Association« was opened. The club house housed various pharmacists 'institutions right from the start: in addition to the pharmacists' association, u. a. the Vienna Pharmacists Main Committee and its collections, the laboratories, the Pharmaceutical School, the General Salary Fund for Pharmacists and the First Austrian Pharmacists Credit Association. Today the following institutions are housed in the pharmacist's house (in alphabetical order):

  • Österreichische Apothekerbank : Apobank is the professional bank of the pharmaceutical industry in Austria
  • Chamber of pharmacists: the legal professional representation of all self-employed and employed pharmacists
  • Apothekerverband: Representation of the interests of independent pharmacists in Austria
  • Apotheker-Verlag: The publishing house of the Austrian pharmacists
  • Working group of Austrian hospital pharmacists: represents the interests of hospital pharmacists in Austria.
  • Forum Pharmazie: Association for employed pharmacists in Austria
  • Pharmaceutical salary fund: Economic and social institute for pharmacists in Austria
  • Association of Salaried Pharmacists Austria (VAAÖ): Representation of the interests of salaried pharmacists in Austria capable of collective agreements

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