CJEU: SPCs begin on notification, not authorisation, date

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ended the uncertainty over the term of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) by ruling that they begin once a party is notified of a marketing auth orisation for a drug.

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