Financing the Pharmacy Activity from the Perspective of Admissibility of State Aid in the European Union

State aid for enterprises is applied in the European Union as derogation from a rule of creating equal opportunities for starting and running a business in the Single European Market. The rules of State interventionism in the economy has been defined precisely in this field and they tend to seek a compromise between the position of the European Commission and the position of the Member State concerned with the admissibility of State aid. Economic activity consisting in running a community pharmacy is in Poland subject to strict regulation of the Act of 6 September 2001 on Pharmaceutical Law. With the aim of increasing the standard of pharmaceutical services in 2017 the legislator made significant changes in the rules of undertaking the above-mentioned activity. Pharmacy activity is most often carried out by enterprises classified into the group of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The subject of the article is to define a pharmacy as an SMEs group enterprises and to analyze available forms of State aid for this group of enterprises.