{"id":3193,"date":"2025-07-01T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:37:44","slug":"european-commission-launches-infringement-procedure-against-slovenia-over-amendments-to-the-pharmacy-services-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/european-commission-launches-infringement-procedure-against-slovenia-over-amendments-to-the-pharmacy-services-act\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission Launches Infringement Procedure Against Slovenia Over Amendments to the Pharmacy Services Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"461\">The European Commission has initiated an infringement procedure against the Republic of Slovenia under case number INFR(2025)4011. The procedure concerns the alleged non-compliance of provisions in the Pharmacy Services Act with Directive 2014\/24\/EU on public procurement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"812\">The amendments to the Pharmacy Services Act reportedly allow public pharmacy institutions to procure medicines without using public procurement procedures. The European Commission considers such regulation a breach of fundamental EU law principles, particularly the principles of transparency, competition, and efficiency in the use of public funds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"1121\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">As part of the initiated procedure, Slovenia has received a formal notice and must respond within two months. If the Commission is not satisfied with the response, it may issue a reasoned opinion as the next step in the preliminary procedure before a potential lawsuit before the Court of Justice of the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has initiated an infringement procedure against the Republic of Slovenia under case number INFR(2025)4011. The procedure concerns the alleged non-compliance of provisions in the Pharmacy Services Act with Directive 2014\/24\/EU on public procurement. The amendments to the Pharmacy Services Act reportedly allow public pharmacy institutions to procure medicines without using public procurement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cukrov.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}