The requirements are set out in Section 52a AMG:

With the application, the applicant must

• name the specific establishment as well as the activities and the medicinal products for which the authorization is to be granted,
• submit evidence that he has suitable and sufficient premises, facilities and equipment to ensure proper storage and distribution and, where provided, proper decanting, packaging and labeling of medicinal products,
• appoint a responsible person who has the necessary expertise to carry out the activity, and
• to enclose a declaration in which he undertakes in writing to comply with the regulations applicable to the proper operation of a wholesale business.

Excluded from the licensing requirement are finished medicinal products released for sale outside pharmacies, which may be dispensed in the travel trade (see Section 52a (1) of the German Medicines Act).