The European Commission said it is taking Italy to the European court
of justice over the country's restrictions on the acquisition and
ownership of retail pharmacies.
The commission has also formally asked Austria and Spain to change
their rules on the establishment of pharmacies.
The three infringement procedures concern such national restrictions
to the opening and running of pharmacies as a ban on non-pharmacists
from owning pharmacies, exclusion on non-national pharmacists from
opening new pharmacies, preference for pharmacists with local
experience, territorial and demographic limits to the setting-up of
pharmacies, and a ban on owning more than one pharmacy.
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