# Council Directive of 21 December 1988 relating to the transparency of measures regulating the pricing of medicinal products for human use and their inclusion in the scope of national health insurance systems (89/105/EEC), Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Member States shall ensure that any national measure, whether laid down by law, regulation or administrative action, to control the prices of medicinal products for human use or to restrict the range of medicinal products covered by their national health insurance systems complies with the requirements of this Directive.
2. The definition of ‘medicinal products’ laid down in Article 1 of Directive 65/65/EEC shall apply to this Directive.
3. Nothing in this Directive shall permit the marketing of a proprietary medicinal product in respect of which the authorization provided for in Article 3 of Directive 65/65/EEC has not been issued.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1989/105/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-105/article-1
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