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# 91997E2431

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2431/97 by Edouard des PLACES to the Commission. Authorization to place plant protection products on the market** 
  
*Official Journal C 045 , 10/02/1998 P. 0176*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2431/97 by Edouard des Places (I-EDN) to the Commission (8 July 1997)

Subject: Authorization to place plant protection products on the market

In the light of the judgment of the Court of Justice of 12 November 1996 in Case C-201/94 on pharmaceutical products, where the competent authority of a Member State possesses evidence that a proprietary plant protection product with an authorization to market in another Member State and a proprietary plant protection product for which it has already issued a marketing authorization are manufactured by the same company or by its licensees, and that those two products, though not absolutely identical, have at least been manufactured according to the same formula and using the same active ingredient and that, furthermore, they have the same physical and chemical effects, must that authority, unless considerations such as the effective protection of human life and health militate against it, grant that marketing authorization to the imported plant protection product?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (1 August 1997)

The Commission is conducting a detailed investigation of the problem raised by the Honourable Member and will inform him of the outcome as soon as possible.

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