Chapter V, Article 23 · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161

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Article 23Provisions to accommodate specific characteristics of Member States' supply chains#

Member States may require, where necessary to accommodate the particular characteristics of the supply chain on their territory, that a wholesaler verifies the safety features and decommissions the unique identifier of a medicinal product before he supplies that medicinal product to any of the following persons or institutions:

(a)persons authorised or entitled to supply medicinal products to the public who do not operate within a healthcare institution or within a pharmacy;

(b)veterinarians and retailers of veterinary medicinal products;

(c)dental practitioners;

(d)optometrists and opticians;

(e)paramedics and emergency medical practitioners;

(f)armed forces, police and other governmental institutions maintaining stocks of medicinal products for the purposes of civil protection and disaster control;

(g)universities and other higher education establishments using medicinal products for the purposes of research and education, with the exceptions of healthcare institutions;

(h)prisons;

(i)schools;

(j)hospices;

(k)nursing homes.