Notification of a pharmaceutical brokerage

Do you want to report a brokerage of medicinal products?

If you wish to act as an intermediary for medicinal products, you must notify us in advance.

The competent authority is the Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP).

Please contact the Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP).

• Business registration (for self-employment)
  

Forms/online services available: Yes
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: No
Personal appearance necessary: No

• If you work as a self-employed intermediary, you must have registered a business
• You may only act as a medicinal product broker if you have your registered office in the area of application of this law, in another member state of the European Union or in another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Administrative court action

• You submit your notification to the competent authority using the online form and upload the required document if necessary,
• the confirmation will be issued if the competent authority determines that the legal requirements have been met.
  

The notification must be made before the start of the activity

Fee from 33,00 EUR to 275,00 EUR

In addition to a risk-based inspection of establishments, the monitoring also provides for the taking and testing of medicinal product samples. In order for the authorities to fulfill their monitoring obligations, there is an obligation to notify "companies and facilities that develop, manufacture, clinically test or subject medicinal products to residue testing, test, store, package, place on the market or otherwise trade in them".