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Germany fails to obstruct the Tobacco Advertising Directive

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • February 5 2007

Germany’s attempted challenge to the latest Tobacco Advertising Directive (“Directive”) has failed (C-38003

The European Court of Justice adopts stricter approach to the promotion of medicinal products and the scope of the term “advertising”

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • May 11 2009

A recent decision of the European Court of Justice suggests that the Court is beginning to adopt a strict interpretation as to what could constitute the "promotion" of medicinal products in the European Union

Advertising and independent statements

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Denmark, European Union
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  • October 26 2009

Generally, advertising rules (as set out in Articles 86 to 100 of Directive 200183) as implemented nationally, are aimed at marketing authorisation holders

ECJ Damgaard on advertising by third party

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Denmark, European Union
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  • April 21 2009

On 2 April 2009, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rendered its judgment in the Damgaard case

Awaited judgment from the ECJ on dissemination of information by an independent third party - it may be regarded as advertising

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • July 17 2009

On 2 April 2009 the ECJ interpreted Article 86 of Directive 200183EC definition of advertising for medicinal products

Prohibition on advertising unregistered medicinal products applies also to independent third parties

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Denmark, European Union
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  • July 31 2009

The prohibition on advertising unregistered medicinal products applies not only to pharmaceutical companies but also to independent third parties, including journalists whose right of freedom of expression may be limited for the purpose of protecting public health

Advertising of medicinal products versus freedom of expression of a journalist - European Court of Justice decision dated 2 April 2009 (C-42107) "Frede Damgaard"

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Denmark, European Union
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  • April 28 2009

The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") recently had the opportunity to opine on limits on the scope of advertising for medical products in the European Union, when a journalist who had reprinted factual information about a pain medication sold in Norway but prohibited in Denmark, was made an example under Danish legal provisions prohibiting advertising for medicinal products that are not lawfully marketed in Denmark

EFSA issues additional opinions on “functional food” health claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union
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  • October 22 2010

In its ongoing review of food product health claims, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has adopted 75 new opinions addressing 808 claims

Food marketing to youth discussed in Brussels

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • April 8 2011

According to public health lawyer and activist Michele Simon, who recently attended a meeting in Brussels "to address the problem of cross-border marketing of unhealthy food to children," the same types of issues confronting public health advocates in the United States confront their counterparts in Europe

Prescription medicines: how to differentiate information from advertising in the EU

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union
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  • March 5 2012

The question of how to distinguish between advertising and providing information on prescription medicines has returned to the spotlight, following the European Commission's publication of its revised proposals on information to patients and pharmacovigilance in February