Legal Basis for Remote Sale  of Medicines in the Russian  Federation

Alexander Kornienko; Nadezhda Neretina

doi:10.17323/2713-2749.2021.4.98.113

Alexander Kornienko National Research University Higher School of Economics https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0759-2921
Nadezhda Neretina Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1606-6007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/2713-2749.2021.4.98.113

Keywords: remote sales, trade, e-commerce, medicines, electronic prescription, prescription and over-the-counter delivery of medicines, egulatory framework, COVID-19, pandemic

Abstract

The topic of the article is very relevant, first of all, due to the fact that today the development of the information and telecommunication services market involves almost all areas of people’s life in the field of e-commerce. Until April 2020, it was not possible to purchase a medicinal product online on the territory of the Russian Federation due to the lack of a regulatory legal framework regulating such a mechanism. However, at the moment, the relevant legislation has entered into force, regulating in detail the sale of medicines in a remote format. Taking into account the presented circumstances, it seems to us that the issue of studying new legislative acts in the field of remote sale of medicines on the territory of the Russian Federation is largely being updated. The subject of the article is the mechanism of legal regulation of remote sale of medicines in Russia. The purpose of the study is to identify the problems of legal regulation of the process of remote sale of medicines in the Russian Federation at the present stage. This research is based on a combination of groups of classical general scientific methods (induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis) and a number of special methods of scientific cognition applied directly within the framework of legal science (formal legal, comparative legal and others). Within the framework of the presented article, the authors carried out a conceptual analysis of the features of the legal regulation of the sale of medicines using remote technologies, taking into account the latest changes in legislation. The specifics of remote trade in prescription and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the peculiarities of labeling of medicines on the territory of the Russian Federation, are analyzed. As a result of a comprehensive study of current trends in regulatory regulation and justification of possible methods for improving the systems for issuing electronic prescriptions, as well as mandatory labeling of medicines, a conclusion is made about the possibility of further development of remote trade in medicines in the Russian Federation.

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Author Biographies

Alexander Kornienko, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Assistant Professor

Nadezhda Neretina, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Candidate of Sciences (Sociology), Assistant Professor

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