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Case T-67/13: Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2015 — Novartis Europharm v Commission (Medicinal products for human use — Marketing authorisation for the generic medicinal product Zoledronic acid Hospira — zoledronic acid — Regulatory data protection period for the reference medicinal products Zometa and Aclasta, containing the active substance zoledronic acid — Directive 2001/83/EC — Regulation (EEC) No 2309/93 and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 — Global marketing authorisation — Regulatory data protection period)

OJ C 363, 3.11.2015, p. 29–30 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

3.11.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 363/29


Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2015 — Novartis Europharm v Commission

(Case T-67/13) (1)

((Medicinal products for human use - Marketing authorisation for the generic medicinal product Zoledronic acid Hospira - zoledronic acid - Regulatory data protection period for the reference medicinal products Zometa and Aclasta, containing the active substance zoledronic acid - Directive 2001/83/EC - Regulation (EEC) No 2309/93 and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 - Global marketing authorisation - Regulatory data protection period))

(2015/C 363/37)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Novartis Europharm Ltd (Horsham, United Kingdom) (represented by: C. Schoonderbeek, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Mifsud-Bonnici and M. Šimerdová, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Hospira UK Ltd (Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom) (represented: initially by N. Stoate and H. Austin, Solicitors, and J. Stratford QC, and subsequently by N. Stoate and E. Vickers, Solicitors, and J. Stratford QC)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Implementing Decision C (2012) 8605 final of 19 November 2012 granting a marketing authorisation in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council for the medicinal product for human use ‘Zoledronic acid Hospira — zoledronic acid’.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders Novartis Europharm Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission and by Hospira UK Ltd.


(1)  OJ C 101, 6.4.2013.


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