24.8.2020

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 279/24

(Case C-178/20)

(2020/C 279/34)

Language of the case: Hungarian

Referring court

Fővárosi Törvényszék (formerly Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság)

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Pharma Expressz Szolgáltató és Kereskedelmi Kft

Defendant: Országos Gyógyszerészeti és Élelmezés-egészségügyi Intézet

Questions referred

1.Does an obligation flow from Articles 70 to 73 of Directive 2001/83 (1) to regard a medicinal product which can be dispensed without medical prescription in one Member State as a medicinal product which can also be dispensed without medical prescription in another Member State, including where, in that other Member State, the medicinal product in question does not have a marketing authorisation and has not been classified?

2.Is a quantitative restriction which makes the possibility of ordering and dispensing to a patient a medicinal product which does not have a marketing authorisation in one Member State but does have such an authorisation in another [Member State of the EEA] conditional on the existence of a medical prescription and a declaration from the pharmaceutical authority, including where the medicinal product is registered in the other Member State as a medicinal product not subject to medical prescription, justified in the interests of protection of the health and life of humans, as referred to in Article 36 TFEU?

(1) Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ 2001 L 311, p. 67).