CELEX: 62007CA0171
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-171/07 and C-172/07: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 May 2009 (references for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht des Saarlandes — Germany) — Apothekerkammer des Saarlandes, Marion Schneider, Michael Holzapfel, Fritz Trennheuser, Deutscher Apothekerverband eV (C-171/07) and Helga Neumann-Seiwert (C-172/07) v Saarland and Ministerium für Justiz, Gesundheit und Soziales (Freedom of establishment — Article 43 EC — Public health — Pharmacies — Provisions restricting the right to operate a pharmacy to pharmacists alone — Justification — Reliability and quality of the provision of medicinal products to the public — Professional independence of pharmacists)

4.7.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 May 2009 (references for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht des Saarlandes — Germany) — Apothekerkammer des Saarlandes, Marion Schneider, Michael Holzapfel, Fritz Trennheuser, Deutscher Apothekerverband eV (C-171/07) and Helga Neumann-Seiwert (C-172/07) v Saarland and Ministerium für Justiz, Gesundheit und Soziales
   (Joined Cases C-171/07 and C-172/07) (1)
   
   (Freedom of establishment - Article 43 EC - Public health - Pharmacies - Provisions restricting the right to operate a pharmacy to pharmacists alone - Justification - Reliability and quality of the provision of medicinal products to the public - Professional independence of pharmacists)
   2009/C 153/10
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgericht des Saarlandes
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Claimants: Apothekerkammer des Saarlandes, Marion Schneider, Michael Holzapfel, Fritz Trennheuser, Deutscher Apothekerverband eV (C-171/07) and Helga Neumann-Seiwert (C-172/07)
   
      Defendants: Saarland and Ministerium für Justiz, Gesundheit und Soziales
   
      Joined party: DocMorris NV
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Verwaltungsgericht des Saarlandes — Interpretation of Articles 10 EC, 43 EC and 48 EC — Authorisation to operate pharmacies restricted, under national legislation, to pharmacists who personally manage the pharmacy — Authorisation given by the national authorities to a legal person in view of the direct effect of Community law — Conditions under which national law should be disapplied
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Articles 43 EC and 48 EC do not preclude national legislation, such as that at issue in the main actions, which prevents persons not having the status of pharmacist from owning and operating pharmacies.
   
      (1)  OJ C 140, 23.6.2007.