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# 91997E3227

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3227/97 by Dominique SOUCHET to the Commission. Authorization to market plant-health products** 
  
*Official Journal C 158 , 25/05/1998 P. 0063*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3227/97 by Dominique Souchet (I-EDN) to the Commission (9 October 1997)

Subject: Authorization to market plant-health products

In the light of the Court ruling delivered on 12 November 1996 in Case C-201/94 concerning pharmaceutical products, where the competent authority of a Member State has evidence that a plant-health product which has marketing authorization in another Member State and a plant-health product for which it has itself already issued a marketing authorization are manufactured by the same company or by licensees of that company, and where the two plant-health products, while not being identical in every way, have nevertheless been manufactured in accordance with the same formula, using the same active ingredient, and have the same physical and chemical effects, must the competent authority in question, where there are no counter-considerations relating to the effective protection of human life and health, grant a marketing authorization to the imported plant-health product?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (7 November 1997)

The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to its answer to Written Question P-2431/97 by Mr des Places ((OJ C 134, 30.4.1998, p. 8. )).

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