91.92 (1) The person in charge of a hospital shall not permit a preparation or mixture containing a Class A precursor set out in column 1 of the schedule to be sold or provided to a patient or for the benefit of an animal under treatment as an in-patient or an out-patient of the hospital in a quantity, per transaction, that exceeds the maximum quantity, expressed as an absolute quantity or per package, specified for the contained precursor in column 2 of the schedule, unless the transaction is made under a prescription or another authorization of a practitioner practising in the hospital.

D. whereas organised crime is a major cross-border internal security threat in the EU in terms of the number of victims; whereas organised crime makes huge profits from trafficking in human beings, illegal trafficking in and smuggling of organs, arms, drugs and their precursors, nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical substances, prescription drugs, counterfeiting of everyday consumer goods such as foodstuffs, protected animal and plant species and parts of them, tobacco in all its forms, works of art and various other – ofte ...[+++]n counterfeit – products; whereas the above-mentioned trafficking entails losses to the revenue of the European Union and the Member States, damages consumers, public health and manufacturing companies and can also facilitate the spread of other forms of organised crime;

D. whereas organised crime is a major cross-border internal security threat in the EU in terms of the number of victims; whereas organised crime makes huge profits from trafficking in human beings, illegal trafficking in and smuggling of organs, arms, drugs and their precursors, nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical substances, prescription drugs, counterfeiting of everyday consumer goods such as foodstuffs, protected animal and plant species and parts of them, tobacco in all its forms, works of art and various other – often ...[+++] counterfeit – products; whereas the above-mentioned trafficking entails losses to the revenue of the European Union and the Member States, damages consumers, public health and manufacturing companies and can also facilitate the spread of other forms of organised crime;

P. whereas illicit trafficking in and smuggling of organs, arms, drugs, including CBRN substances and precursors as well as prescription drugs, wildlife species and body parts, cigarettes and tobacco, works of art, and other products stem from a variety of sources, supply new criminal markets all over Europe, offers criminal organisations enormous opportunities for profit, and challenge- the EU’s and Member States’ border security, as well as the single market and the EU’s financial interests;

Q. whereas illicit trafficking in and smuggling of organs, arms, drugs, including CBRN substances and precursors as well as prescription drugs, wildlife species and body parts, cigarettes and tobacco, works of art, and other products stem from a variety of sources, supply new criminal markets all over Europe, offers criminal organisations enormous opportunities for profit, and challenge- the EU’s and Member States’ border security, as well as the single market and the EU’s financial interests;

The Commission maintained that the desired aim would not be achieved by extending the existing legal instrument as it stood to cover other synthetic drug precursors, because there were too many precursors on the market and these could, moreover, easily be replaced by or mixed with other substances.