68As the Hungarian Government specifically relies on the need to ensure the protection of the health of the Hungarian public, and in particular on the need to ensure a stable, reliable and high-quality supply of medicinal products to that public, it must be borne in mind that the Court has previously recognised that the need to ensure that a country has reliable supplies for essential medical purposes, in particular a supply of medicinal products to the public that is reliable and of good quality, may, under Article 36 TFEU, justify a restriction on trade between Member States if that objective contributes to protecting human health and human life (see, to that effect, judgments of 28 March 1995, Evans Medical and Macfarlan Smith, C‑324/93, EU:C:1995:84, paragraph 37, and of 19 October 2016, Deutsche Parkinson Vereinigung, C‑148/15, EU:C:2016:776, paragraph 31).
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