CELEX: 62020TA0127
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-127/20: Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2021 — France v ECHA (REACH — Substance evaluation — Aluminium chloride — Aluminium chloride, basic — Aluminium sulphate — ECHA decisions requesting further information — Article 46(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Appeal brought before the Board of Appeal — Multiple grounds for the decision of the Board of Appeal — Grounds capable of justifying the decision — Inoperative nature of the pleas directed against the other grounds)

8.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 452/32
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2021 — France v ECHA
      (Case T-127/20) (1)
      
      (REACH - Substance evaluation - Aluminium chloride - Aluminium chloride, basic - Aluminium sulphate - ECHA decisions requesting further information - Article 46(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Appeal brought before the Board of Appeal - Multiple grounds for the decision of the Board of Appeal - Grounds capable of justifying the decision - Inoperative nature of the pleas directed against the other grounds)
      (2021/C 452/37)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: French Republic (represented by: T. Stehelin, W. Zemamta and A.-L. Desjonquères, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (represented by: M. Heikkilä, M. Goodacre and W. Broere, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: D. Klebs, S. Heimerl and S. Costanzo, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland), Grace Silica GmbH (Düren, Germany) (represented by: J.-P. Montfort and T. Delille, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the decision of the Board of Appeal of ECHA of 17 December 2019 annulling three decisions of ECHA of 21 December 2017 requesting the registrants concerned to carry out new tests in the context of the evaluation of aluminium chloride, aluminium chloride, basic and aluminium sulphate (joined cases A-003-2018, A-004-2018 and A-005-2018).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Kemira Oyj and Grace Silica GmbH;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 191, 8.6.2020.