48Accordingly, in order to ensure that the Directive’s objectives are achieved, in particular those relating to the protection of public health, the removal of barriers to trade in medicinal products within the European Union and the need to exercise control over the entire chain of distribution of medicinal products, referred to in recitals 2 to 5 and 35 in the preamble to the Directive, the minimum requirements for the wholesale distribution of medicinal products must be fulfilled in a uniform and effective manner by all persons who engage in that activity in all Member States.
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