45The national authorities are required to authorise, in accordance with the rules relating to parallel imports, a medicinal product imported as a parallel product where they are convinced that that product, in spite of differences relating to the excipients, does not pose a problem for public health. Accordingly, the competent authorities of the Member State of importation must ensure, at the time of import and on the basis of information in their possession, that the medicinal product imported as a parallel product, even if not identical in all respects to that already authorised by them, has the same active ingredient and the same therapeutic effect and does not pose a problem of quality, efficacy or safety (see, to that effect, Case C-100/96 British Agrochemicals Association [1999] ECRI-1499, paragraph 40).
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