27In Case C-201/94 Smith & Nephew and Primecrown [1996] ECR I-5819, paragraph 21, the Court stated again that the Directive cannot apply to a medicinal product covered by a marketing authorisation in one Member State which is being imported into another Member State as a parallel import of a product already covered by a marketing authorisation in that other Member State, because the imported medicinal product cannot, in such a case, be regarded as being placed on the market for the first time in the Member State of importation.
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