Retail Trade of Medicinal Products

Abstract

The retail trade in medicinal products is associated with the risk of a threat to the health and life of patients, therefore this trade is subject to extensive statutory restrictions, ranging from the authorization of the medicinal product to the market, quality requirements for medicinal products, name and packaging of the medicinal product, and ending with pharmacies, i.e. entrepreneurs entitled to participate in retail trade in medicinal products, the catalogue of activities that make up the retail trade, or the so-called the direction of retail trade. The above-mentioned statutory restrictions on retail trade in medicinal products raise significant problems of interpretation. Regardless of them, another key question arises, namely, how far do these statutory restrictions go, do they only define the rules and procedure for authorizing medicinal products to be marketed and the conditions for trading in medicinal products, or also create the legal basis on which medicinal products are traded between pharmacies and the patient.