Ordinance
on Licensing in the Medicinal Products Sector
(Medicinal Products Licensing Ordinance, MPLO)

¹ Doc­tors and veter­in­ary sur­geons who prac­tise their pro­fes­sion on both sides of the bor­der in ac­cord­ance with cur­rent in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments may im­port and ex­port ready-to-use medi­cin­al products in small quant­it­ies without a li­cence in­so­far as this is in­dis­pens­able for prac­tising their pro­fes­sion.

² Any per­son hold­ing a can­ton­al li­cence to dis­pense medi­cines as a pub­lic phar­macy, hos­pit­al phar­macy or drug­store does not re­quire an op­er­at­ing li­cence from Swiss­med­ic for the whole­sale trade in medi­cines oc­ca­sion­ally con­duc­ted with oth­er hold­ers of a can­ton­al dis­pens­ing li­cence in the can­ton in which they are es­tab­lished. If the medi­cines are sold to more than five cus­tom­ers a year or if dis­tri­bu­tion is trans­ferred to a third party, an op­er­at­ing li­cence from Swiss­med­ic is re­quired.

³ For whole­sale trade activ­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2, the GDP rules de­scribed in An­nex 4 ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis.

⁴ The can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies must be no­ti­fied of whole­sale trade activ­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2.