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Document 62018TO0178

Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 February 2019.
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale v European Commission.
Action for annulment — Plant-protection products — Active substance glyphosate — Renewal of inclusion in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 — Lack of direct concern — Inadmissibility.
Case T-178/18.

Court reports – general

Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 February 2019 –
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale v Commission

(Case T‑178/18)

(Action for annulment — Plant-protection products — Active substance glyphosate — Renewal of inclusion in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 — Lack of direct concern — Inadmissibility)

1. 

Actions for annulment — Action brought by the natural or legal person to whom the contested measure is addressed — Notion of addressee

(Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU)

(see para. 38)

2. 

Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Whether directly concerned — Criteria

(see para. 41)

3. 

Agriculture — Approximation of laws — Placing of plant protection products on the market — Regulation No 1107/2009 — Renewal of authorisation — Intervention attributable to the Member State

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1107/2009, Art. 43(5) and (6))

(see para. 54)

4. 

Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Whether directly concerned — Criteria — Act of the Commission affecting a regional authority

(Art. 114(6) TFEU)

(see paras 66, 67)

Re:

Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking the annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2324 of 12 December 2017 renewing the approval of the active substance glyphosate in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011(OJ 2017 L 333, p.10).

Operative part

1. 

The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. 

There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the applications to intervene of Justice Pesticides, the Walloon Region, Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), Health & Environment Alliance (HEAL), Nature & Progrès Belgique (Nature & Progrès), SomeOfUs, WeMove Europe (WeMove.EU), Monsanto Europe NV/SA, Monsanto Company, Helm AG, Barclay Chemicals Manufacturing Ltd, Albaugh Europe Sàrl, Albaugh TKI D.O.O. and Albaugh UK Ltd.

3. 

The Région de Bruxelles-Capitale shall bear its own costs and shall pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.

4. 

The Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, the Commission, Justice Pesticides, the Walloon Region, PAN Europe, HEAL, Nature & Progrès, SomeOfUs, WeMove.EU, Monsanto Europe, Monsanto Company, Helm, Barclay Chemicals Manufacturing, Albaugh Europe, Albaugh TKI D.O.O. and Albaugh UK shall each bear their own costs in relation to the applications to intervene.
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