Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 Article 42

Removal of unique identifiers from the repositories system

Article 42

The marketing authorisation holder or, in case of parallel imported or parallel distributed medicinal products bearing an equivalent unique identifier for the purposes of complying with Article 47a of Directive 2001/83/EC, the person responsible for placing those medicinal products on the market shall not upload unique identifiers in the repositories system before having removed from therein, where present, older unique identifiers containing the same product code and serial number as the unique identifiers being uploaded.

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