CELEX: 62017TA0806
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-806/17: Judgment of the General Court of 3 October 2019 – BASF and REACH & colours v ECHA (REACH — Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Article 3(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/9 — Requirement for joint submission of data — Joint submission with possibility of a complete opt-out — Administrative practice of ECHA requiring an agreement on the terms for making a joint submission with the lead registrant for a registered substance — Failure to reach an agreement — Dispute resolution mechanism applied by analogy — Decision granting access to a joint submission — Legal basis — Broad discretion of ECHA — Manifest error of assessment — Obligation to state reasons — Legal certainty)

16.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 3 October 2019 – BASF and REACH & colours v ECHA
      (Case T-806/17) (1)
      
      (REACH - Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Article 3(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/9 - Requirement for joint submission of data - Joint submission with possibility of a complete opt-out - Administrative practice of ECHA requiring an agreement on the terms for making a joint submission with the lead registrant for a registered substance - Failure to reach an agreement - Dispute resolution mechanism applied by analogy - Decision granting access to a joint submission - Legal basis - Broad discretion of ECHA - Manifest error of assessment - Obligation to state reasons - Legal certainty)
      (2019/C 423/41)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: BASF SE (Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein, Germany) and REACH & colours Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft. (REACH & colours Kft.) (Budapest, Hungary) (represented by: R. Cana, D. Abrahams, E. Mullier and H. Widemann, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented by: M. Heikkilä, C. Jacquet, and T. Basmatzi, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of Decision DSH-30-3-0123-2017 of ECHA of 2 October 2017 granting Sustainability Support Services (Europe) AB access to the joint submission lodged by REACH & colours, as lead registrant for the substance hexasodium 2,2'-[vinylenebis[(3-sulphonato-4,1-phenylene)imino[6-(diethylamino)-1, 3, 5-triazine-4,2-diyl]imino]]bis(benzene-1,4-disulphonate), EC No 255-217-5 and CAS No 41098-56-0.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders BASF SE, REACH & colours Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft. (REACH & colours Kft.) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to bear their own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 52, 12.2.2018.