Court of Justice 11 July 1978, 3/78 (Centrafarm BV v American Home Products Corporation.)

OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE GENERAL CAPOTORTI DELIVERED ON 11 JULY 1978 ( 1 ) Mr President, Members of the Court, 1. In Case 102/77 Hoffmann-La Roche v Centrafarm (judgment of 23 May 1978) the Court had to deal with a case in which the Netherlands importer of a proprietary medicinal product, manuactured and sold in a number of Member States, re-packed the product, which had been imported from the