FRANCE PARALLEL IMPORTS
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLFRANCE has been found in breach of its European Union (EU) legislative commitments on free trade by failing to sufficiently legalise the parallel trade in pharmaceutical products, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Judges found that France had recognised in 1999 it had breached EU regulation 2309/93 which liberalises the pan-EU trade in medicines, but had been too slow to respond to pressure for change from the European Commission. By January 2002, plans to reform France's civil code on public health had still not been approved, ...
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