The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1990] 1 QB 534
[EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE]
REGINA v. ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN, Ex parte ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL IMPORTERS AND OTHERS
(Case 266/87)
REGINA v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES, Ex parte ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL IMPORTERS AND OTHERS
(Case 267/87)
1989 Jan. 12;
March 10;
May 18
March 10;
May 18
President O. Due, Presidents of Chambers R. Joliet, T. F. O'Higgins and F. Grévisse, Judges Sir Gordon Slynn, G. F. Mancini, F. A. Schockweiler, J. C. Moitinho de Almeidaand G. C. Rodriguez Iglesias Advocate General M. Darmon
European Economic Community
— Free competition
— Quantitative restriction
— Parallel imports of pharmaceutical products
— Prohibition on pharmacist substituting equivalent product for product named in prescription
— Whether justifiable on grounds of protection of health
— Whether guidance given by Pharmaceutical Society to members constituting “measures” having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions
—
E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179-II), arts. 30, 36