In order to ensure fair competition between domestic and foreign pharmacies, member states cannot set uniform prices for prescription-only medicines, the Court of Justice of the EU decided in a judgment delivered on Wednesday 19 October on the rules currently in force in Germany.
The ruling (case C-148/15) is fully in line with the opinion of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar (see EUROPE 11564), the Court taking the view that the legislation at issue constitutes an unjustified restriction of...