1. 

Appeal – Grounds – Inadequate or contradictory grounds – Admissibility – Scope of the obligation to state reasons – Reliance by the General Court on implied reasoning – Whether permissible – Conditions

(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58(1))

(see paras 52, 53)

2. 

Appeal – Grounds – Mistaken assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the facts or evidence have been distorted – Plea alleging distortion of the facts – Need to indicate precisely the evidence alleged to have been distorted and show the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion

(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58(1)); Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d))

(see paras 69, 70, 87, 88)

3. 

Appeal – Grounds – Lack of specific criticism of a point of the General Court’s reasoning and of legal arguments in support of the appeal – Inadmissibility

(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58(1)); Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 168(1)(d) and 169(2))

(see paras 71-73)

1. 

Dismisses the appeal;

2. 

Orders PlasticsEurope AISBL to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and ClientEarth;

3. 

Orders the French Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany to bear their own costs.