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Document 62018CJ0784

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 September 2020.
Mellifera eV, Vereinigung für wesensgemäße Bienenhaltung v European Commission.
Appeal – Aarhus Convention – Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 – Article 2(1)(g) and Article 10(1) – Internal review of administrative acts – Limitation to measures of individual application – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1056 – Extension of the approval period of the active substance ‘glyphosate’ – Application for internal review – Measure of general application – Dismissal.
Case C-784/18 P.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:630

 Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 September 2020 – Mellifera v Commission

(Case C‑784/18 P) ( 1 )

(Appeal – Aarhus Convention – Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 – Article 2(1)(g) and Article 10(1) – Internal review of administrative acts – Limitation to measures of individual application – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1056 – Extension of the approval period of the active substance ‘glyphosate’ – Application for internal review – Measure of general application – Dismissal)

Acts of the institutions – Implementing Regulation extending the approval period of the active substance ‘glyphosate’ – Measure of general scope – No administrative act capable of being the subject of a request for internal review under Regulation No 1367/2006

(Aarhus Convention, Art. 9(3); European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1367/2006, Arts 1(1), 2(1)(g) and 10, and No 1107/2009, Arts 13(2), 17, first para., and 20; Commission Regulation 2016/1056)

(see paras 63-67, 70, 72, 73, 80, 81, 84-86, 88, 89)

Operative part

The Court:

1. 

Dismisses the appeal.

2. 

Orders Mellifera eV, Vereinigung für wesensgemäße Bienenhaltung to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Bayer Agriculture BVBA and by the European Commission.


( 1 ) OJ C 54, 11.2.2019.

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