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Document 62019TA0868

Case T-868/19: Judgment of the General Court of 29 March 2023 — Nouryon Industrial Chemicals and Others v Commission (REACH — Evaluation of registration dossiers and compliance check of information provided by registrants — Request for further studies for the purposes of the registration dossier for dimethyl ether — Pre-natal developmental toxicity study — Extended one-generation reproductive toxicity study — Dose-range finding study — Article 51(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Animal testing — Article 25 of Regulation No 1907/2006 — Manifest error of assessment — Proportionality)

OJ C 179, 22.5.2023, p. 26–26 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

22.5.2023   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 179/26


Judgment of the General Court of 29 March 2023 — Nouryon Industrial Chemicals and Others v Commission

(Case T-868/19) (1)

(REACH - Evaluation of registration dossiers and compliance check of information provided by registrants - Request for further studies for the purposes of the registration dossier for dimethyl ether - Pre-natal developmental toxicity study - Extended one-generation reproductive toxicity study - Dose-range finding study - Article 51(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Animal testing - Article 25 of Regulation No 1907/2006 - Manifest error of assessment - Proportionality)

(2023/C 179/36)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Nouryon Industrial Chemicals BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Knoell NL BV (Maarssen, Netherlands), Grillo-Werke AG (Duisburg, Germany), PCC Trade & Services GmbH (Duisburg) (represented by: R. Cana, Z. Romata and H. Widemann, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lindenthal and K. Mifsud-Bonnici, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by: M. Søndahl Wolff, acting as Agent), Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: M. Bulterman, A. Hanje and J. Langer, acting as Agents), Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: A. Runeskjöld, C. Meyer-Seitz, M. Salborn Hodgson, H. Shev, H. Eklinder, R. Shahsavan Eriksson and O. Simonsson, acting as Agents), European Chemicals Agency (represented by: M. Heikkilä, W. Broere, S. Mahoney and N. Herbatschek, acting as Agents)

Re:

By their action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek annulment of Commission Implementing Decision C(2019) 7336 final of 16 October 2019 on the compliance check of a registration of dimethyl ether, adopted on referral by the European Chemicals Agency, on the basis of Article 51(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders the applicants to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission, including the costs relating to the proceedings for interim relief;

3.

Orders the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Sweden and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to bear their own costs.


(1)  OJ C 68, 2.3.2020.


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