Trade in medicinal products should be defined according to strict rules.
During the pandemic, an online form of the business of selling medicines in so-called “prescription machines” developed.
The pharmaceutical law indicates the standards that a pharmaceutical entity must meet, but the practice of illegal trade still continues.
Attorney Maciej Gawronski comments:
“There are no legal tools in Poland to prevent illegal sites from being displayed to users, because we don’t have a register of banned sites. There have been several attempts to introduce it, but unsuccessfully. Indeed, there is a danger that the registry will be used as preventive censorship (…)”
