CELEX: 62012CA0159
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-159/12 to C-161/12: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 5 December 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia — Italy) — Alessandra Venturini v ASL Varese and Others (C-159/12), Maria Rosa Gramegna v ASL Lodi and Others (C-160/12), Anna Muzzio v ASL Pavia and Others (C-161/12) (Freedom of establishment — Article 49 TFEU — Public health — National legislation prohibiting para-pharmacies from selling prescription-only medicinal products the cost of which is borne by the patient)

15.2.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 5 December 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia — Italy) — Alessandra Venturini v ASL Varese and Others (C-159/12), Maria Rosa Gramegna v ASL Lodi and Others (C-160/12), Anna Muzzio v ASL Pavia and Others (C-161/12)
   (Joined Cases C-159/12 to C-161/12) (1)
   
   (Freedom of establishment - Article 49 TFEU - Public health - National legislation prohibiting para-pharmacies from selling prescription-only medicinal products the cost of which is borne by the patient)
   2014/C 45/14
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Alessandra Venturini (C-159/12), Maria Rosa Gramegna (C-160/12), Anna Muzzio (C-161/12)
   
      Defendants: ASL Varese, Ministero della Salute, Regione Lombardia, Comune di Saronno, Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA) (C-159/12), ASL Lodi, Ministero della Salute, Regione Lombardia, Comune di Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA) (C-160/12), ASL Pavia, Ministero della Salute, Regione Lombardia, Comune di Bereguardo, Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA)(C-161/12)
   
      Intervener: Federfarma — Federazione Nazionale Unitaria dei Titolari di Farmacia Italiani (C-159/12 to C-161/12),
   
      Re:
   
   Requests for a preliminary ruling — Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Lombardia — Interpretation of Articles 18 and 56 TFEU and of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU — National legislation prohibiting para-pharmacies from selling prescription-only medicinal products the cost of which is borne by the patient.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 49 TFEU must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which does not allow a pharmacist, who is qualified and registered with the professional body but does not own a pharmacy in the grid, also to offer for retail sale, in the para-pharmacy owned by that pharmacist, prescription-only medicinal products the cost of which is borne not by the national health service but wholly by the purchaser.
   
      (1)  OJ C 157, 2.6.2012.