This paper presents issues regarding the administrative and legal aspects of retail trading of the medicinal products. Because one of the most important goods protected by law is health, the regulations included in the branch of administrative law are to serve its protection. Nor can one forget that public authorities must protect public health. The state carries out its tasks, among other things, by introducing restrictions on retail trade of the medicinal products. Such limitations have been inscribed into the essence of the social market economy, which is characterised by parallel economic and social goals. Although all kinds of restrictions on the issue are justified, they are somewhat restrictive.