Article L5125-27 of the French Public Health Code
The sale, display or distribution of medicines is forbidden on the public highway, at fairs or markets, to any person, even those holding a pharmacist’s diploma.
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The sale, display or distribution of medicines is forbidden on the public highway, at fairs or markets, to any person, even those holding a pharmacist’s diploma.
Any agreement whereby a pharmacist guarantees a practising doctor, dental surgeon or midwife a profit of any kind on the sale of pharmaceutical, medicinal or cosmetic products that they may prescribe is prohibited.
Pharmacists and persons legally authorised to assist them in dispensing medicines in a pharmacy must wear a badge indicating their status; the characteristics of this badge and the conditions under which the public is informed of its meaning are set by order of the Minister for Health.
Cooperative societies of dispensing pharmacists may not refuse their services in an emergency to non-associated dispensing pharmacists and to all public or private establishments where patients are treated, where such establishments regularly have an in-house pharmacy.
Pharmacy pharmacies may only be advertised in accordance with the conditions laid down by regulation.
The following are laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat: 1° The procedures for submitting and examining applications for the creation, transfer and grouping of pharmacies, the rules for assessing priority rights and prior rights, and the minimum installation conditions that pharmacies must meet ; 2° (Paragraph deleted) ; 3° The conditions under which the holder of a pharmacy provided for in Article L. 5125-21 must be replaced by…
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…
Only medicinal products that are not subject to compulsory prescription may be traded electronically.
The creation of the pharmacy’s e-commerce website for medicinal products provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 5125-33 is subject to the existence of the licence referred to in article L. 5125-18 or the decision of the Minister for Health referred to in article L. 5125-10 and the actual opening of the pharmacy.
The creation of the pharmacy’s e-commerce website for medicinal products is subject to prior declaration to the Director General of the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction. The pharmacist must inform the relevant council of the Order of Pharmacists of the creation of the site.
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