Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2025:115
Date: 2025-02-27
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Tenth Chamber
Subject matter: Approximation of laws;Research and technological development;REACH
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded
Origin: Netherlands

Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 27 February 2025 – Nouryon Performance Formulations v Commission (Case C‑353/23 P) ( Appeal – Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH Regulation) – Evaluation of registration dossiers – Request for further studies for the purposes of the evaluation of the registration dossier for dimethyl ether – Decision addressed to the registrant and contested by it before the General Court of the European Union – Subsequent replacement of the registrant at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) – Appeal brought by the new registrant – Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union – Appeal brought by an entity which was not a party to the proceedings before the General Court – Inadmissibility ) Appeal – Admissibility – Appeal brought by an entity which was not a party to the proceedings before the General Court – No special circumstances conferring on it standing to bring an appeal – Appeal inadmissible (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 56, second para.) (see paragraphs 32-35, 38) Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders Nouryon Performance Formulations BV to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA); 3. Orders Cruelty Free Europe (CFE), Knoell NL BV, Grillo-Werke AG and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to bear their own costs.