The invention relates to a system and a method for administering medicaments to a patient. The system comprises: at least one mobile medicament container (5) with at least one liquid medicament; an identification-element-generating device (3) for generating at least a first identification element (5a) with first data relating to the patient, to medication and/or treatment, in order to apply this identification element to the medicament container (5); at least one reading device (6) for reading the first data from the first identification element (5a); at least one delivery device for delivering the medicament to the patient from the medicament container (5, 14) inserted into the delivery device (11), wherein the reading device (6) is likewise suitable for reading second data, which are provided on/in a second identification element (10) assigned to the patient (9), and is connected to the delivery device (11), and a control device (16) within the delivery device (11) sends a first control signal (13) for activating the delivery process to at least one of a plurality of delivery units (12a-e) of the delivery device (11) if the first and second data at least partially match.