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Case C-367/12: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 February 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich (Austria)) — Proceedings initiated by Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher (Freedom of establishment — Public health — Article 49 TFEU — Pharmacies — Adequate supply of medicinal products to the public — Operating authorisation — Territorial distribution of pharmacies — Establishment of limits essentially based on a demographic criterion — Minimum distance between pharmacies)
Case C-367/12: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 February 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich (Austria)) — Proceedings initiated by Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher (Freedom of establishment — Public health — Article 49 TFEU — Pharmacies — Adequate supply of medicinal products to the public — Operating authorisation — Territorial distribution of pharmacies — Establishment of limits essentially based on a demographic criterion — Minimum distance between pharmacies)
Case C-367/12: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 February 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich (Austria)) — Proceedings initiated by Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher (Freedom of establishment — Public health — Article 49 TFEU — Pharmacies — Adequate supply of medicinal products to the public — Operating authorisation — Territorial distribution of pharmacies — Establishment of limits essentially based on a demographic criterion — Minimum distance between pharmacies)
OJ C 93, 29.3.2014, p. 9–9
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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29.3.2014 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 93/9 |
Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 February 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich (Austria)) — Proceedings initiated by Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher
(Case C-367/12) (1)
(Freedom of establishment - Public health - Article 49 TFEU - Pharmacies - Adequate supply of medicinal products to the public - Operating authorisation - Territorial distribution of pharmacies - Establishment of limits essentially based on a demographic criterion - Minimum distance between pharmacies)
2014/C 93/13
Language of the case: German
Referring court
Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich
Parties to the main proceedings
Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher
Third party: Agnes Hemetsberger, successor to Susanna Zehetner
Re:
Request for a preliminary ruling — Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich — Interpretation of Article 49 TFEU and Articles 16 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Member State's rules which make the award of a concession to operate a pharmacy subject to an assessment of the needs of the market based on a number of complex and almost unforeseeable criteria.
Operative part of the judgment
Article 49 TFEU, in particular the requirement that the desired objective be achieved in a consistent manner, must be interpreted as precluding legislation such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which lays down, as an essential criterion for determining whether a need for the establishment of a new pharmacy exists, a rigid limit on the ‘people remaining to be served’, where the competent authorities cannot depart from that limit to take account of particular local geographical conditions.