CELEX: 62019TA0317
Language: en
Date: 2022-02-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-317/19: Judgment of the General Court of 9 February 2022 — AMVAC Netherlands v Commission (Plant protection products — Active substance ethoprophos — Non-renewal of approval — Regulation No 1107/2009 and Implementing Regulation No 844/2012 — Rights of the defence — Manifest error of assessment — Legal certainty — Proportionality — Precautionary principle)

21.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 128/17
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 February 2022 — AMVAC Netherlands v Commission
      (Case T-317/19) (1)
      
      (Plant protection products - Active substance ethoprophos - Non-renewal of approval - Regulation No 1107/2009 and Implementing Regulation No 844/2012 - Rights of the defence - Manifest error of assessment - Legal certainty - Proportionality - Precautionary principle)
      (2022/C 128/23)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: AMVAC Netherlands BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: C. Mereu, M. Grunchard and S. Englebert, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castilla Contreras and A. Dawes, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/344 of 28 February 2019 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance ethoprophos, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (OJ 2019 L 62, p. 7).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders AMVAC Netherlands BV to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission in the present action and in the proceedings for interim measures.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 263, 5.8.2019.