CELEX: 62017TA0610
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-610/17: Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — ICL-IP Terneuzen and ICL Europe Coöperatief v Commission (REACH — Substances subject to authorisation — Inclusion of 1-bromoproprane (nPB) in Annex XIV to Regulation No 1907/2006 — Volumes — Registration dossier — Data — Substance grouping — Principle of sound administration — Right to conduct business and pursue a trade freely — Obligation to state reasons — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality — Equal treatment)

2.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 406/22
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — ICL-IP Terneuzen and ICL Europe Coöperatief v Commission
      (Case T-610/17) (1)
      
      (REACH - Substances subject to authorisation - Inclusion of 1-bromoproprane (nPB) in Annex XIV to Regulation No 1907/2006 - Volumes - Registration dossier - Data - Substance grouping - Principle of sound administration - Right to conduct business and pursue a trade freely - Obligation to state reasons - Legitimate expectations - Proportionality - Equal treatment)
      (2019/C 406/29)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: ICL-IP Terneuzen, BV (Terneuzen, Netherlands) and ICL Europe Coöperatief UA (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: R. Cana, E. Mullier and H. Widemann, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Huttunen, R. Lindenthal and K. Mifsud-Bonnici, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: European Chemicals Agency (represented by: M. Heikkilä, W. Broere, T. Zbihlej and N. Herbatschek, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment in part of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/999 of 13 June 2017 amending Annex XIV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (OJ 2017 L 150, p. 7), in so far as it includes 1-bromopropane (nPB) in that annex.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders ICL-IP Terneuzen, BV and ICL Europe Coöperatief UA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 357, 23.10.2017.