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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7879

12 January 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/medicines
European Commission calls on Court of Justice to cancel Court of First Instance decision ruling Bayer was entitled to make parallel imports of medicine

Brussels, 11/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission filed an appeal with the European Court of Justice against the annulment by the Court of First Instance of an EUR 3 million fine that it had imposed on the German pharmaceuticals group Bayer for unduly restricting parallel exports of the cardio-vascular drug, Adalat.

In a press release, the Commission said it had proved that Bayer had entered into an agreement with its French and Spanish wholesalers to prohibit re-exports of...

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