Judgment_paragraph 38 · Abcur AB v Apoteket Farmaci AB and Apoteket AB (C-544/13, C-545/13)

38It follows from the wording of those provisions that Article 2(1) of Directive 2001/83 makes a positive determination of the scope of that directive, by providing that it is to apply to medicinal products for human use intended to be placed on the market in Member States and either prepared industrially or manufactured by a method involving an industrial process, while Article 3, points 1 and 2, of that directive provides for certain exceptions to its scope.