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