Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-526/04Laboratoires Boiron SA v Union de recouvrement des cotisations de sécurité sociale et d'allocations familiales (Urssaf) de Lyon, assuming the rights and obligations of the Agence centrale des organismes de sécurité sociale (ACOSS)
- Decided
- 2006-09-07
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2006:528
- CELEX
- 62004CJ0526
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
State aid - Articles 87 and 88(3) CE - Tax on direct sales of medicines - Applicable to pharmaceutical laboratories rather than wholesale distributors - Prohibition on implementing a non-notified aid measure - Possibility of pleading that an aid measure is unlawful in order to obtain reimbursement of a charge - Compensation for discharging public service obligations imposed on wholesale distributors - Burden of proof in relation to overcompensation - Detailed rules laid down by national law - Prohibition on making reimbursement of a charge practically impossible or excessively difficult.
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