Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2020:647
Date: 2020-12-18
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Eighth Chamber
Subject matter: Public health
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Netherlands

Order of the General Court of 18 December 2020 – Micreos Food Safety v Commission (Case T-568/19) 1 (Action for annulment – Public health – Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 – Phage-based product used to reduce the presence of the bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes in animal-derived ready-to-eat food – Rejection of the request to approve Listex™ P100 as a decontaminant in animal-derived ready-to-eat food – Act not open to challenge – Act not intended to produce binding legal effects – Purely confirmatory act – Informative act – Inadmissibility) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Micreos Food Safety BV (Wageningen, Netherlands) (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Eggers, W. Farrell and I. Galindo Martín, acting as Agents) Re: Action pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the alleged decisions of the Commission of 17 June 2019 by which the Commission: (i) rejected the original application by the applicant for the approval of Listex™ P100 as a decontaminant in animal-derived ready-to-eat food, or re-examined that application; (ii) rejected the alternative application to regard Listex™ P100 as a non-decontaminating processing aid; and, (iii) prohibited the placing on the market of the European Union of that product as a processing aid in such food. Operative part of the order The action is dismissed as inadmissible. Micreos Food Safety BV shall pay the costs, including those of the interim proceedings. ____________ 1 OJ C 372, 4.11.2019.