Case T-94/23: Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – Pollinis France v Commission (Plant protection products – Active substance boscalid – Application for renewal of an active substance – Extension of approval period – Delay in the renewal procedure – Reasons beyond the control of the applicant – Request for internal review – Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 – Decision to reject the request – Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)
Date: 2025-11-19
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: health risk, market approval, plant health control, plant health product








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C/2026/102


5.1.2026






Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – Pollinis France v Commission


(Case T-94/23)
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(Plant protection products - Active substance boscalid - Application for renewal of an active substance - Extension of approval period - Delay in the renewal procedure - Reasons beyond the control of the applicant - Request for internal review - Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 - Decision to reject the request - Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)
(C/2026/102)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Pollinis France (Paris, France) (represented by: A. Bailleux, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Becker, G. Gattinara and M. ter Haar, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: W. Kuzmienko and O. Denkov, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: P. Pecheux, A. Maceroni and A. Nowak-Salles, acting as Agents), BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) (represented by: J.-P. Montfort, N. Kyriazopoulou and P. Chopova-Leprêtre, lawyers), CropLife Europe (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: D. Waelbroeck and I. Antypas, lawyers)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks annulment of Commission Decision Ares(2022) 8437051 of 6 December 2022 to reject its request for internal review as regards Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/708 of 5 May 2022 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the extension of the approval periods of the active substances 2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid methylester, acetic acid, aclonifen, aluminium ammonium sulphate, aluminium phosphide, aluminium silicate, beflubutamid, benthiavalicarb, boscalid, calcium carbide, captan, cymoxanil, dimethomorph, dodemorph, ethephon, ethylene, extract from tea tree, fat distilation residues, fatty acids C7 to C20, fluoxastrobin, flurochloridone, folpet, formetanate, gibberellic acid, gibberellins, hydrolysed proteins, iron sulphate, magnesium phosphide, metam, metamitron, metazachlor, metribuzin, milbemectin, phenmedipham, pirimiphos-methyl, plant oils/clove oil, plant oils/rape seed oil, plant oils/spear mint oil, propamocarb, proquinazid, prothioconazole, pyrethrins, quartz sand, fish oil, repellents by smell of animal or plant origin/sheep fat, S-metolachlor, Straight Chain Lepidopteran Pheromones, sulcotrione, tebuconazole and urea (OJ 2022 L 133, p. 1), in so far as that regulation extends the approval period of boscalid.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls Commission Decision Ares(2022) 8437051 of 6 December 2022 to reject the request for internal review made by Pollinis France as regards Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/708 of 5 May 2022 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the extension of the approval periods of the active substances 2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid methylester, acetic acid, aclonifen, aluminium ammonium sulphate, aluminium phosphide, aluminium silicate, beflubutamid, benthiavalicarb, boscalid, calcium carbide, captan, cymoxanil, dimethomorph, dodemorph, ethephon, ethylene, extract from tea tree, fat distilation residues, fatty acids C7 to C20, fluoxastrobin, flurochloridone, folpet, formetanate, gibberellic acid, gibberellins, hydrolysed proteins, iron sulphate, magnesium phosphide, metam, metamitron, metazachlor, metribuzin, milbemectin, phenmedipham, pirimiphos-methyl, plant oils/clove oil, plant oils/rape seed oil, plant oils/spear mint oil, propamocarb, proquinazid, prothioconazole, pyrethrins, quartz sand, fish oil, repellents by smell of animal or plant origin/sheep fat, S-metolachlor, Straight Chain Lepidopteran Pheromones, sulcotrione, tebuconazole and urea, in so far as that regulation extends the approval period of boscalid;










2.


Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Pollinis France;










3.


Orders the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, BASF SE and CropLife Europe to bear their own costs.






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            OJ C 179, 22.5.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/102/oj
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