Request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék (formerly the Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság (Hungary)) lodged on 7 April 2020 — Pharma Expressz Szolgáltató és Kereskedelmi Kft v Országos Gyógyszerészeti és Élelmezés-egészségügyi Intézet
(Case C-178/20)
Language of the case: Hungarian
Referring court
Fővárosi Törvényszék (formerly Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság)
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Pharma Expressz Szolgáltató és Kereskedelmi Kft
Defendant: Országos Gyógyszerészeti és Élelmezés-egészségügyi Intézet
Questions referred
Does an obligation flow from Articles 70 to 73 of Directive 2001/83 1 to regard a medicinal product which can be dispensed without medical prescription in one Member State as a medicinal product which can also be dispensed without medical prescription in another Member State, including where, in that other Member State, the medicinal product in question does not have a marketing authorisation and has not been classified?
Is a quantitative restriction which makes the possibility of ordering and dispensing to a patient a medicinal product which does not have a marketing authorisation in one Member State but does have such an authorisation in another [Member State of the EEA] conditional on the existence of a medical prescription and a declaration from the pharmaceutical authority, including where the medicinal product is registered in the other Member State as a medicinal product not subject to medical prescription, justified in the interests of protection of the health and life of humans, as referred to in Article 36 TFEU?
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1 Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ 2001 L 311, p. 67).