Authorisation of modifications to the premises of a pharmacy office.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Salud
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Farmacia, Humanizacion Y Coordinacion Sociosanitaria (DIR3: A06029672)
- Classification
- Authorizations, licenses, concessions and approvals
- Subject(s)
- Health
- Starting way
- Interested
- Target
- Legal entities, self-employed persons and registered professionals
- Subject to fees
- Yes
- Fees
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish.
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
- Type
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Modification of the premises of pharmacies. According to current legislation. |
No links are included
Requirements
- Requirements
- Modifications to the premises in which the pharmacy is located that involve works must be authorised by the Department of Health, especially those that involve displacement in the centre of the façade or affect the accesses to it.
- In the event that the modification of the premises affects the accesses, the modification may be authorised even if the minimum distances to other pharmacies or public health care centres with outpatient consultations or equipped with emergency services in operation or in the design or construction phase are not met, provided that they are respected, at least, the pre-existing ones.
- Exceptional technical-sanitary requirements may be admitted which, in any case, must imply an improvement on the conditions of the premises.
- Proof of payment of the fees must be provided, as indicated by current legislation
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
All year round.
- Submission deadline start date
- 01/01/2011
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Telematic
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
Required documentation
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Work project. Work project drawn up by a competent technician who will duly accredit their membership.
Mandatory
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Forecast of the start of the works and execution period. Forecast of the start of the works and execution period.
Mandatory
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Guarantees on compliance with hygienic-sanitary conditions. Guarantees on compliance with the hygienic-sanitary conditions of medicines and medical devices during the execution of the works.
Mandatory
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Forecast of closure or not of the pharmacy. Forecast of closure or not of the pharmacy for the execution of the works.
Mandatory
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Measures to guarantee adequate pharmaceutical care. Measures to guarantee adequate pharmaceutical care in the event that the closure is not carried out.
Mandatory
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Certification issued by a competent technician. Certificate issued by a competent technician, who will suitably accredit its membership, stating the state of construction of the premises, the useful area available, details of its distribution, floors to be occupied, exact location, characteristics of its accesses from the public road, as well as its location and distances from the nearest pharmacies and any public health care centre with outpatient consultations or equipped with emergencies in operation or in the project or construction phase, expressly indicating that the measurements have been carried out in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of Decree 7/2003, of 30 January, on Pharmaceutical Planning.
Mandatory
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Documentary justification of the availability of premises (if extension). In the case of an extension of the premises, documentary justification of the legal availability of the premises (rental contract, deed of purchase).
Mandatory in some modality
The document is mandatory in some of the modalities. If the modification involves an extension of premises. |
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Proof of payment of the fee. Proof of payment of the fee.
Mandatory
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Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Pharmaceutical Planning Section.
- Attributive rule
Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the Basic Organic Structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- General Director of Pharmacy, Humanization and Social and Health Coordination.
- Attributive rule
Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the Basic Organic Structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 3 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 3 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation by request:
- Negative
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
- Subject to participation of certification partner entities
- No
- Certification Partner Entities
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Currently, there are no certification partner entities authorized to act in this procedure.
Appeals
- Type
Appeal.
- Board
Health Counselor.
- Deadline
- 1 month if the resolution is express; if it is presumed, at any time from the day following the day on which, in accordance with its specific regulations, the effects of administrative silence occur.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Law of Cantabria 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
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- Law 7/2001, of 19 December, on the Pharmaceutical Regulation of Cantabria.
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- Decree 7/2003, of 30 January, which approves the Pharmaceutical Planning and establishes the Technical-Health requirements, the legal regime and the procedure for the authorisation, transfer, transfers, modifications and closure of Pharmacies, and subsequent modifications, modified by Decree 7/2015, of 29 January.
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