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Another deregulation – a change in the way medicines are purchased online.
On 1 July 2025, the Journal of Laws published the Regulation of the Minister of Health of 30 June 2025 amending the regulation on the mail-order sale of medicinal products. This is another deregulatory act concerning the pharmaceutical industry. According to the explanatory memorandum, the essence of the draft is to amend the Regulation of the Minister of Health of 26 March 2015 on the mail-order sale of medicinal products (Journal of Laws, item 481) in such a way as to enable the purchase of medicinal products in connection with their offering as part of the mail-order sale of medicinal products by publicly accessible pharmacies or pharmacy outlets, also using various means of electronic communication, and not only the methods specified to date.
The amendment expands the catalogue of methods for ordering medicinal products offered for mail order sales to include the possibility of placing orders using electronic means of communication. As emphasised by the legislator, no specific solutions are intentionally indicated (it is not predetermined that these may be, for example, mobile applications, which were mentioned in the original deregulation proposal behind this draft) in order not to exclude the possibility of using various conceivable means of electronic communication, present or future.
The proposed wording of § 2(1)(6) of the amended regulation refers to The proposed wording of § 2(1)(6) of the amended regulation refers to the website of a publicly accessible pharmacy or pharmacy outlet. This is to emphasise that the electronic means of communication itself is not intended to be a complete sales platform (as this will remain the website), but only a tool allowing the use of offers found on such websites and facilitating contact with a publicly accessible pharmacy or pharmacy outlet where the customer ultimately decides to purchase medicinal products. In other words, the drafters' assumption is that a given means of electronic communication (e.g. a mobile application) should remain only a technical tool facilitating the placing of an order.
This means should essentially allow redirection to the above-mentioned website where the actual purchase is to take place.
The new regulations come into force 14 days after the date of publication.
The content of the regulation can be found at the following address: