ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE SEVENTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
4 June 2020 (*)
(Removal from the register)
In Case T‑612/19,
UPL Europe Ltd, established in Warrington Cheshire (United Kingdom)
and
Aceto Agricultural Chemicals Corp. Ltd,
established in Chester (United Kingdom),
represented by C. Mereu and P. Sellar, lawyers,
applicants,
v
European Commission, represented by F. Castilla Contreras, A. Dawes and I. Naglis, acting as Agents,
defendant,
APPLICATION pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/989 of 17 June 2019 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance chlorpropham, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (OJ 2019 L 160, p. 11).
1        By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 10 April 2020, the applicants informed the Court, in accordance with Article 125 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, that they wished to discontinue proceedings and requested that each party be ordered to pay their own costs.
2        By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 20 April 2020, the defendant informed the Court that it had no observations on the application for discontinuance and requested, in accordance with Articles 125, 136(1) and 158(5) of the Rules of Procedure, that the applicants be ordered to pay the costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures.
3        Article 136(1) and (2) of the Rules of Procedure provides that a party who discontinues or withdraws from proceedings is to be ordered to pay the costs if they have been applied for in the other party’s observations on the discontinuance. However, at the request of the party who discontinues or withdraws from proceedings, the costs are to be borne by the other party if this appears justified by the conduct of that party.
4        In the present case, the information in the case-file does not show conduct on the part of the defendant such as to justify ordering the latter to bear its own costs.
5        The case shall therefore be removed from the register and the applicants ordered to pay the costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SEVENTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
hereby orders:
1.      Case T‑612/19 is removed from the register of the General Court.
2.      UPL Europe Ltd and Aceto Agricultural Chemicals Corp. Ltd shall pay the costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures.
Luxembourg, 4 June 2020.
E. Coulon
R. da Silva Passos
Registrar
President
* Language of the case: English.