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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:
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Dismisses the action; |
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Orders Novartis Europharm Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission and by Hospira UK Ltd. |