Such rules laid down in the developed regulations for issuing permits for retail trade in medicinal preparations for medical use, remote way. The document was considered by Subcommittee on improvement of control (Supervisory) and licensing functions under the government Commission on administrative reform.
“In April, a law was passed to allow the remote sale of medicines, – said the Chairman of the Association of lawyers of Russia Vladimir Gruzdev. – In the period of the pandemic and adopted restrictive measures such form of realization of medicines is particularly relevant.”
At the same time, as stressed Gruzdev, the law allows you to sell a remote way, only those medicines that are dispensed without a prescription. In addition, you can not sell narcotic drugs and psychotropic drugs as well as alcohol-containing medicines with a volume fraction of ethyl alcohol more than 25%.
“to Sell drugs in the remote way can only pharmacies that have received special permission from the health Ministry – said the Chairman of the Board of AYUR. – Now prepared draft rules for issuing licenses for retail trade of medicines remotely. The document establishes requirements for the pharmacy institutions which have the right to sell drugs through the Internet.”
“it is Important to emphasize that to obtain such licenses it will be able to company which has a network of pharmacies. The organization applying for a license for the implementation of the medicines remotely, must have at least ten places of implementation of pharmaceutical activities on the territory of the country,” he added.
According to Gruzdeva, the organization must be the site on the Internet with a choice of payment method and receiving the medicinal product.
“is allowed in the mobile application. So order and buy medicines, you can use the phone, – said the Chairman of the Board of AYUR. – The company also needs to have its own courier service, equipped with equipment that ensures maintenance of the necessary temperature regime for the transport of thermolabile drugs. Or the company must have a contract with a courier service that has the equipment.”
“Another requirement: the presence of the electronic payment system or the mobile payment terminal designed to process electronic payments, including via credit cards directly in provision of services,” he said.
In case of detection of on the Internet online-shops that sell medicines without the appropriate license, such websiteyou will be entered in the register of banned and blocked, said Gruzdev. “In General, prepared the project consistent with the goals of increasing the availability of medicines for citizens and the development of distance selling of medicines that now is the most important,” he concluded.
