CELEX: 62012CN0159
Language: en
Date: 2012-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-159/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia (Italy) lodged on 2 April 2012 — Alessandra Venturini v A.S.L. Varese and Others

2.6.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 157/5
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia (Italy) lodged on 2 April 2012 — Alessandra Venturini v A.S.L. Varese and Others
   (Case C-159/12)
   2012/C 157/07
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Alessandra Venturini
   
      Defendants: ASL Varese and Others
   
      Question referred
   
   Do the principles of freedom of establishment, non-discrimination and the preservation of competition under Article 49 et seq TFEU preclude national legislation which does not allow a pharmacist, who is qualified and entered in the relevant professional register but does not own a pharmacy on the ‘pianta organica’ [territorial grid], also to offer for retail sale, in the para-pharmacy owned by that pharmacist, pharmaceutical products which are subject to a prescription in the form of a ‘ricetta bianca’ — that is to say, pharmaceutical products the cost of which is borne not by the [national health service] but wholly by the citizen — and which accordingly also establishes in that sector a prohibition on the sale of certain categories of pharmaceutical product, as well as a quota in relation to the number of commercial outlets which may be established in the national territory?