The Groups of Pharmaceutical Products
The legal boundaries of telepharmacy in Georgia are defined by the Law on Medicines and Pharmaceutical Activity, and the starting point is the classification of groups. Under Article 11-2, a pharmaceutical product is divided for the purposes of advertising and retail realization into three groups: the first group comprises a product subject to special control and a medicinal means equated with it; the second group comprises a product whose improper use may cause significant harm to health or life and which is issued on prescription; the third group comprises a product which, according to the instructions, may be taken without a physician’s prescription and is issued without one.
The law prohibits assigning one and the same generic name, form and dose under different trade names to more than one group, while every product not assigned to the third group automatically belongs to the second. For a model of remote services this classification is decisive: the assortment of the service is limited precisely by those groups whose realization is permitted for the given object.