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Common Customs Tariff - Tariff headings - Echinacea purpurea extract-based drops - Product for therapeutic and prophylactic use - Classification under heading 3004 of the Combined Nomenclature

Summary

The Common Customs Tariff is to be interpreted as meaning that Echinacea purpurea extract-based drops should be classified under heading 3004. The curative or prophylactic properties of that product as well as the way in which it is packaged, dispensed and marketed are in themselves such as to cause it to be regarded as a product possessing the characteristic properties of a medicament. In the Member States in which it is marketed the product in question is, moreover, authorized to be put on the market as a medicament or, at the very least, has been the subject of an application for authorization to that end. Furthermore, however great the alcohol content of the product in question it does not alter its nature, since the alcohol acts as an adjuvant, preservative and vehicle for that product.