Three appeals were filed with the Council of State against the decree governing the online sale of medicines. One of them wants this trade to be opened up to prescription drugs.
4000 drugs and why not more! This is surely what some pharmacists are saying to themselves, who this summer lodged appeals on the merits before the Council of State against the decree governing the sale of drugs on the Internet. This decree, which entered into force on July 12, allows pharmacists who so wish to market on the web all drugs sold without a prescription, or about 4,000 products. A right open only to official pharmacies registered with the Order. But for these dissatisfied pharmacists, the contested text would be too restrictive in its transposition of European legislation.
Contacted by the Medical Press Agency (Apm), one of them Philippe Lailler, the first web pharmacist confides: “For example, we must open up the sale of products subject to medical prescription, with secure prescriptions, wherever we can. market drugs on the internet without having a physical pharmacy. “As a reminder, this Caen pharmacist is already at the origin of the procedure before the Council of State which had extended online sales to all drugs sold without a prescription, and no longer to only open-access products (OTC ) in pharmacies, as was originally planned in the Government’s plan.
Regarding the other two appeals, they were filed at the end of August. The first by the internet marketplace specializing in hygiene and health products 1001Pharmacies. This company accuses the text of preventing pharmacies from joining together to open a single sales site. “A platform common to several pharmacies with the advantage of pooling costs and offering superior technical services”, explains its president Cédric O’Neill, contacted by the APM.
The second appeal was brought before the Council by a pharmacist from Isère, Laurence Silvestre.
The latter disapproves of the obligation imposed on pharmacists to use an approved health host for each website. A very restrictive provision and which is very expensive, according to the person concerned.
Since the beginning of August, that is to say barely a month after the entry into force of the decree governing the sale of medicines on the Internet, 51 French pharmacies have embarked on e-commerce. At the same time, more than 100 illegal websites have been identified according to information from the College of Pharmacists.
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