Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2003:673
Date: 2003-12-11
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Free movement of goods;Measures having equivalent effect;Quantitative restrictions
Concepts: Import or export licences and declarations, standards certificates, etc.
Procedure: Action for failure to fulfil obligations - successful
Origin: France

Summary of the Judgment 
Free movement of goods — Quantitative restrictions — Measures having equivalent 
effect — Medicinal products covered by a marketing authorisation — Obligation to 
submit a certified copy or a certificate of attestation of that authorisation — Not 
permissible 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-122/03 
The imposition on traders importing or 
distributing in France medicinal products 
which are already covered by a marketing 
authorisation for the French or Community 
market a requirement that they submit, 
when first so requested by the monitoring 
authorities, either a certified copy issued by 
the national health safety agency of the 
national marketing authorisation or of the 
registration of the medicinal product, or a 
document issued by that Agency certifying 
that the imported medicinal product has 
obtained a marketing authorisation issued 
by the European Community, constitutes a 
failure by a Member Stare to fulfil its 
obligations under Article 28 EC. 
(see operative part) 
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