Questão jurídica principal
Whether local pharmacists were entitled to challenge a physician's permit to practise medicine insofar as it allowed self-dispensation of medicines.
Decisão extraída
No. The pharmacists lacked standing to bring the administrative law appeal.
Fundamentação extraída
Standing followed neither from Art. 103 lit. a OG in conjunction with § 12 VRG nor from Art. 37(3) KVG. The federal provision was a competence and legislative-instruction norm, not directly enforceable and not intended to protect pharmacists as a special group. Any protection of pharmacists had to arise from cantonal law, which in Solothurn did not restrict self-dispensation in a way that protected that professional group.