21Those rules, as interpreted by the Court, mean in particular that an operator who has bought a medicinal product lawfully marketed in one Member State under a marketing authorisation issued in that State can import that medicinal product into another Member State where he already has a marketing authorisation without having to obtain such an authorisation in accordance with Directive 65/65, and without having to provide information about the verification, prescribed by the directive, of efficacity and non-toxicity of the medicinal product. It is not necessary for the protection of public health to subject parallel importers to such requirements, as the competent authorities of the Member State of importation already have all the information necessary to carry out that verification (see in particular Case 104/75 De Peijper [1976] ECR 613, paragraphs 21 and 36 and Case C-201/94 Smith & Nephew and Primecrown [1996] ECR I-5819, paragraph 22).
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