PARALLEL IMPORTS
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLGUIDELINES on when the parallel import of medicinal products within the European Union (EU) is legal have been issued by the European Commission, which has tried to clarify recent rulings by the European Court of Justice. Notably, Brussels has underlined that if a product is already authorised for sale in an exporting Member State and is sufficiently similar to a product authorised in the importing country, then that trade is legal. Indeed, parallel importing of this product would be allowed, even when authorisation for original medicine has been ...
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