{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-857/division-1/1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-857/division-1/1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/857",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 15 June 2005 relating to a proceeding under Article 82 of the EC Treaty and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/A.37.507/F3 — AstraZeneca)Opinion of the Advisory Committee (OJ C 291, 30.11.2006). (notified under document number C(2005) 1757) (Only the English and Swedish texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/857/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-857",
  "path": "division/1/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Addresses and the nature of the infringements",
  "text": "The decision is addressed to the Swedish company AstraZeneca AB and the UK company AstraZeneca Plc (hereinafter ‘AZ’) due to their infringements of Article 82 of the EC Treaty and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement.\nThe infringements concern abuses by AZ of government procedures in seven EEA Contracting States aimed at excluding generic firms and — in the context of the second infringement — parallel traders from competing against AZ’s pharmaceutical product Losec. The first abuse involved misuses of a Council Regulation (hereinafter ‘SPC Regulation’) under which the basic patent protection for pharmaceutical products can be extended. The second abuse concerned misuses of procedures relating to the authorisation of marketing of pharmaceutical products.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SPCs are granted pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (OJ L 182, 2.7.1992, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/857/division/1/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:24.496231+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}