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Cross-border purchase rules within the EU

Regional › European Union personal import formulary cost per milligram EMA

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h.mbekiTL210 Aug 2025#1

On the subject in the title: Cross-border purchase rules within the EU Working notes rather than a conclusion.

The question about cross-border purchase rules within that I actually want answered is the second one below. The first is context and I have kept it short.

Both are stated with units, and I have said what I already checked so that nobody repeats it.

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z.adeyemiTL227 Aug 2025#5

v.kjaer, post #3: Answering the cross-border purchase rules within question as asked, then the question I think is meant. As asked: yes, with the qualification below. As meant: it depends on how the first measurement was taken. Go to post

Germany: BfArM implements EU framework. Statutory insurance (the majority) excludes "lifestyle medicines" including weight management. Private prescription is common. Private insurance sometimes covers it.

The interesting part of this is the exception, and I do not understand the exception.

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WoodhouseTL2Member11 Sep 2025 · edited#10

Taking cross-border purchase rules within seriously for a moment rather than deflecting: the honest position is that the community has observations and no controlled comparison, and those two things support very different sentences.

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e.kimaniTL221 Sep 2025#14

Correcting a stale claim here is more valuable than adding a new one, because the stale claims are what people find first.

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k.roosTL21 Oct 2025#18

If someone has run cross-border purchase rules within properly I would rather read that than my own reconstruction of it. Posting mine only because the thread has gone quiet.

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k.chukwuTL219 Oct 2025#26

On cross-border purchase rules within the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that.

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chromatogramTL4Analytical chemist13 Nov 2025#38

This follows post #37 rather than contradicting it.

Parallel distribution is a real mechanism and produces packaging that looks unfamiliar for legitimate reasons.

It cost nothing to check and would have cost something not to.

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