From October 1, 2025, the deposit system is to be effective, which is also to cover the pharmacies. In practice, this may mean that In pharmacies, you can give, for example, beer bottles or other drinks that have nothing to do with the drugs. The new regulations cause very controversy and objections, in which it is emphasized that in pharmacies, next to sterile recipes, vaccines, products for infants and other medicinal products, there would be dirty bottles and cans, including After beer, which everyone could collect from the street and return to regain the deposit.
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The president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council, Marek Tomków, emphasizes that pharmacies should be excluded from the deposit system, regardless of the assortment. “Putting pharmacies into one bag with grocery stores is a misunderstanding” – noted the president of NRA in an interview with PAP. Tomków points out that the law does not allow reimbursement to pharmacies, including drugs and dietary supplements, and even more empty beer bottles.
He added that the list of rooms included in the Pharmacy premises is very precisely specified in the regulation. – There is no place indicated for storing dirty and old bottles or recycling containers – said the president of NRA. Tomków said that pharmacies would give up the sale of products covered by the deposit system. “It will be the simplest solution,” he added.
Will we give a beer bottles in the pharmacy? Controversial records cause objection
At the same time, the emotions are faded by Dr. Wojciech Rożdżyński, assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, a specialist in medical and pharmaceutical law. “Pharmacies cannot sell beer, so there is practically no threat that there will be bottles of this alcoholic beverages in connection with the Caition System,” said Rożdżeński in an interview with PAP.
He also added that the need to accept a beer bottle would theoretically be possible at a pharmacy area over 200 sq m, because only then the deposit system will be mandatory for the pharmacy. “For smaller pharmacies it will be voluntary, and there are very few branches with such a large area,” said Rożdżyński.
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Regulations cause great controversy. In addition to increasingly frequent posts in social media, in which he calls for signing petitions, opposing new regulations. One of the authors of the petition to the minister of climate is a pharmacist from Świebodzin, who works in a public pharmacy. On Friday afternoon there were nearly 3,000 under the petition. signatures of pharmacists.
“I can't imagine a situation in which a pharmacy – a place where medicines are stored and health services – customers bring dirty bottles and cans” – wrote the pharmacist. The appeal also applies to the abandonment of all plans to cover the packaging of medicines, dietary supplements and medical devices.
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In a statement from the end of July MKIŚ emphasized that it did not consider to disable any trade units covered by the bail systemor exclusion from the dietary supplements system, which are offered in packaging fitting into the system.
The Ministry of Health in a Friday announcement pointed out that only those pharmacies in which the commercial area exceeds 200 sq m kW would be required to receive packaging. “This means that most pharmacies will be able to offer, for example, mineral water in bail bottles, but it will not have to take the packaging back” – he emphasized.
