Prejudiciële vragen over overgangsbepalingen Verordening ABC Geneesmiddelen

Zaak C-572/15: Hoffmann-La Roche. Prejudiciële vragen Riigikohus - Estland

Octrooirecht. ABC. "A request for a preliminary ruling in a case which concerns a claim for refraining from conduct infringing the exclusive right of the owner of supplementary protection of a medicinal product, or for terminating that conduct, and destroying the infringing medicinal products.

Prejudiciële vragen: "1. Must Article 21(2) of Regulation No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (codified version) be interpreted as shortening the duration of a supplementary protection certificate issued in a Member State which was issued under national law before the accession of the State in question to the European Union and whose duration in relation to an active substance, as stated in the supplementary protection certificate, would be longer than 15 years from the time when the first marketing authorisation in the Union was granted for a medicinal product consisting of the active substance or containing it?

2. If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative, is Article 21(2) of Regulation No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (codified version) compatible with European Union law, in particular the general principles of European Union law on the protection of acquired rights, the principle of the prohibition of retroactive effect of law, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union?"

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