Veterinary medicinal products: Community code. Codification

ACT: Commission Directive 2006/130/EC implementing Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of criteria for exempting certain veterinary medicinal products for food-producing animals from the requirement of a veterinary prescription.

CONTENT: Pursuant to Article 67 of Directive 2001/82/EC, veterinary medicinal products may be dispensed to the public only against prescription. However, as certain substances, contained in veterinary medicinal products for food-producing animals, do not present a risk to human or animal health or to the environment, exemptions from that general requirement may be granted in accordance with Article 67.

This Directive establishes the criteria on the basis of which Member States may grant exemptions from the requirement to dispense veterinary medicinal products intended for food-producing animals to the public only against prescription.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 01.01.2007.