Case T-453/22: Judgment of the General Court of 27 November 2024 – BASF and Others v Commission (Environment and protection of human health – Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 – Classification, labelling and packaging of certain substances and mixtures – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/692 – Classification and labelling of the substance N-carboxymethyliminobis (ethylenenitrilo)tetra(acetic acid) and its pentasodium and pentapotassium salts (DTPA) – Criteria for classification of a substance as a reproductive toxicant Category 1B – Intrinsic property to specifically harm reproduction – Non-specific secondary consequence of other toxic effects – Possible influence of maternal toxicity – Appropriateness of the classification – Absence of public consultation on the opinions of ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment – Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making – Absence of impact assessment)
Date: 2024-11-27
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: acid, classification, environmental protection, health risk, labelling, packaging, reproductive health, toxic substance








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C/2025/547


3.2.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 27 November 2024 – BASF and Others v Commission


(Case T-453/22)
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(Environment and protection of human health - Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 - Classification, labelling and packaging of certain substances and mixtures - Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/692 - Classification and labelling of the substance N-carboxymethyliminobis (ethylenenitrilo)tetra(acetic acid) and its pentasodium and pentapotassium salts (DTPA) - Criteria for classification of a substance as a reproductive toxicant Category 1B - Intrinsic property to specifically harm reproduction - Non-specific secondary consequence of other toxic effects - Possible influence of maternal toxicity - Appropriateness of the classification - Absence of public consultation on the opinions of ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment - Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making - Absence of impact assessment)
(C/2025/547)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicants: BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Dow Europe GmbH (Horgen, Switzerland), Nouryon Functional Chemicals BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: J.-P. Montfort and P. Chopova-Leprêtre, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Farley and R. Lindenthal, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: B. Fodda, B. Travard and M. de Lisi, acting as Agents); European Chemicals Agency (represented by A. Deloff-Bialek, A. Hautamäki and M. Heikkilä, acting as Agents)

Re:

By their action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek the annulment of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/692 of 16 February 2022 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (OJ 2022 L 129, p. 1), in so far as concerns the harmonised classification and labelling of the substance N-carboxymethyliminobis (ethylenenitrilo)tetra(acetic acid), and its pentasodium and pentapotassium salts in the hazard class for reproductive toxicity, Category 1B.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Dismisses the action;










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Orders BASF SE, Dow Europe GmbH and Nouryon Functional Chemicals BV to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;










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Orders the French Republic and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to each bear their own costs.






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            OJ C 389, 10.10.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/547/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)