Case C-654/22, Triferto Belgium: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 April 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlaanderen, afdeling Gent – Belgium) – FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de voedselketen & Leefmilieu v Triferto Belgium NV
Date: 2024-04-11
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: chemical product, customs formalities, customs territory (EU), customs warehouse, import (EU)








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C/2024/3280


3.6.2024






Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 April 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlaanderen, afdeling Gent – Belgium) – FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de voedselketen & Leefmilieu v Triferto Belgium NV


(Case C-654/22,
                (1)
Triferto Belgium)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals - Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH Regulation) - Article 2(1)(b) - Scope - Article 3(10) and (11) - Concepts of ‘import’ and ‘importer’ - Article 6 - Obligation to register - Person assuming responsibility for registration - Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 - Union Customs Code - Customs warehousing)
(C/2024/3280)
Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlaanderen, afdeling Gent

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de voedselketen & Leefmilieu

Defendant: Triferto Belgium NV

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Article 2(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008,
must be interpreted as meaning that the exclusion from the scope of Regulation No 1907/2006, as amended, laid down in that provision applies only to substances, on their own, in a mixture or in an article, which are subject to customs supervision and which do not undergo any treatment or processing, where those substances are placed in one of the situations expressly referred to in that provision.










2.


Article 3(10) and (11) and Article 6 of Regulation No 1907/2006, as amended by Regulation No 1272/2008,
must be interpreted as meaning that a buyer of more than one tonne per year of a substance imported into the European Union and falling within the scope of Regulation No 1907/2006, as amended, is not itself required to submit the registration for that substance where (i) another person established in the European Union has assumed responsibility for importing that substance into the European Union, (ii) that person has submitted that registration, and (iii) there is nothing to show that the obligations relating to the registration mechanism established by that regulation have been circumvented.






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            OJ C 35, 30.1.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3280/oj
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