Judgment_paragraph 82 · Colegiul Medicilor Veterinari din România (CMVRO) v Autoritatea Naţională Sanitară Veterinară şi pentru Siguranţa Alimentelor (C-297/16)

82In that regard, bearing in mind the discretion enjoyed by Member States, as indicated in paragraph 64 above, the latter may consider that there is a risk that, if persons who are not veterinary practitioners are in a position to exert influence on the operation of establishments retailing veterinary medicinal products, such persons may adopt economic strategies that may undermine the objective of providing animal owners with medicinal products which are reliable and of good quality and compromise the independence of veterinary practitioners who are involved in such establishments, inter alia by encouraging them to sell off medicinal products which it is no longer profitable to keep in stock or by making reductions in operating costs (see, by analogy, judgment of 19 May 2009, Apothekerkammer des Saarlandes and Others, C‑171/07 and C‑172/07, EU:C:2009:316, paragraph 40).