CELEX: 62004TA0291
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-291/04: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2011 — Enviro Tech Europe Ltd and Enviro Tech International v Commission (Environment and consumer protection — Classification, packaging and labelling of n-propyl bromide as a dangerous substance — Directive 2004/73/EC — Directive 67/548/EEC — Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 — Action for annulment — Late request to adapt claims — Legal interest in bringing proceedings — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility — Non-contractual liability — Judgment of the Court of Justice concerning the validity of Directive 2004/73 — Same subject-matter)

4.2.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2011 — Enviro Tech Europe Ltd and Enviro Tech International v Commission
   (Case T-291/04) (1)
   
   (Environment and consumer protection - Classification, packaging and labelling of n-propyl bromide as a dangerous substance - Directive 2004/73/EC - Directive 67/548/EEC - Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 - Action for annulment - Late request to adapt claims - Legal interest in bringing proceedings - Lack of individual concern - Inadmissibility - Non-contractual liability - Judgment of the Court of Justice concerning the validity of Directive 2004/73 - Same subject-matter)
   2012/C 32/30
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Enviro Tech Europe Ltd (Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom); and Enviro Tech International, Inc. (Melrose Park, Illinois, United States) (represented by: C. Mereu and K. Van Maldegem, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented: initially by X. Lewis, and subsequently by P. Oliver and G. Wilms, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application, first, for annulment of Commission Directive 2004/73/EC of 29 April 2004 adapting to technical progress for the twenty-ninth time Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances (OJ 2004 L 152, p. 1, amended by OJ L 216, p. 3), in so far as Directive 2004/73 classified n-propyl bromide as a substance having certain dangerous properties and, second, for damages.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Enviro Tech Europe Ltd and Enviro Tech International, Inc. to pay the costs, including those relating to the interlocutory proceedings.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 6.11.2004.