Electronic commerce in medicinal products means the economic activity whereby the pharmacist offers or carries out the retail sale and dispensing of medicinal products for human use to the public by electronic means and, to this end, provides online health information.
The e-commerce activity is carried out within a pharmacy open to the public which holds the licence referred to in articles L. 5125-10 or L. 5125-18. It is implemented from the website of a pharmacy under the conditions set out in this article.
In compliance with article L. 4211-1, the creation and operation of an e-commerce website for the dispensing and retail sale of medicinal products is reserved exclusively for the pharmacist holding a pharmacy or the pharmacist managing a mutual or community pharmacy.
The pharmacists who have a website are responsible for the content published and the conditions under which the electronic trading of medicinal products is carried out, in particular compliance with good practice in the dispensing of medicinal products as set out in article L. 5121-5 and the technical rules applicable to websites for the online sale of medicinal products as set out in article L. 5125-39.
Assistant pharmacists who have been delegated by one of the pharmacists mentioned in the third paragraph may participate in the operation of the pharmacy’s website.
Pharmacists replacing pharmacy owners or pharmacy managers following the death of the pharmacy owner may operate the pharmacy website previously created by the pharmacy owner.