Pharmacies Must Display QR Codes with Medicine Prices

The Secretariat of Industry and Commerce and the Secretariat of Health Management issued Joint Resolution 2/2025, published in the Official Gazette on April 4, 2025. This Resolution establishes that drugstores must:

1. display—in a way that is accurate and clear for consumers—the final price of every medicine,
2. make available to the public the updated price list of all medicines.

To comply with these obligations, drugstores must have a QR code directing to an updated price list of available prescription medicines. This QR code must be physically and virtually accessible and placed on a sign with the text “check here the medicines price list.”

Regarding over the counter medicines, drugstores that sell them displayed on shelves from which consumers can grab them directly must display their prices in accordance to Resolution 4/2025 of the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce. This Regulation establishes the rules for displaying goods and services prices, and provides that:

1. prices must be displayed in the domestic currency (ARS). They may also be displayed in USD or other foreign currencies,
2. displayed prices must correspond to the final amount consumers pay,
3. final price signs must also display, in a smaller size, the price excluding VAT and other taxes comprising the final price, together with the phrase “price excluding federal taxes.”

Finally, the Joint Resolution provides that non-compliance with its provisions will be sanctioned in accordance with Decree 274/2019 (Fair Trading) and Law 24240 (Consumer Protection Law).

This Resolution will enter into force on May 4, 2025.