Case T-412/22: Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – PAN Europe v Commission (Plant protection products – Active substance dimoxystrobin – Application for renewal of an active substance – Extension of approval period – Length of the extension – 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: market approval, plant health control, plant health product








C_202600100EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2026/100


5.1.2026






Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – PAN Europe v Commission


(Case T-412/22)
                (1)

(Plant protection products - Active substance dimoxystrobin - Application for renewal of an active substance - Extension of approval period - Length of the extension - 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/2026/100)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) (Brussels, Belgium) (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: M. Menegatti and W. Kuzmienko, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: A. Nowak-Salles, A. Maceroni and P. Pecheux, acting as Agents), CropLife Europe (Brussels) (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) 3275139 of 27 April 2022 to reject its request for internal review as regards Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2068 of 25 November 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the extension of the approval periods of the active substances benfluralin, dimoxystrobin, fluazinam, flutolanil, mecoprop-P, mepiquat, metiram, oxamyl and pyraclostrobin (OJ 2021 L 421, p. 25), in so far as that regulation extends the approval period of dimoxystrobin.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls Commission Decision Ares(2022) 3275139 of 27 April 2022 to reject the request for internal review made by Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) as regards Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2068 of 25 November 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the extension of the approval periods of the active substances benfluralin, dimoxystrobin, fluazinam, flutolanil, mecoprop-P, mepiquat, metiram, oxamyl and pyraclostrobin in so far as that decision concerns dimoxystrobin;










2.


Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by PAN Europe;










3.


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






(1)  
            OJ C 326, 29.8.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/100/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)