CELEX: 62019TA0153
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-153/19: Judgment of the General Court of 13 October 2021 — European Union Copper Task Force v Commission (Plant protection products — Active substance ‘copper compounds’ — Renewal of approval for placing on the market — Candidates for substitution — Action for annulment — Admissibility — Associations — Proportionality — Precautionary principle — Manifest error of assessment — Expert’s report)

6.12.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 490/30
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 October 2021 — European Union Copper Task Force v Commission
      (Case T-153/19) (1)
      
      (Plant protection products - Active substance ‘copper compounds’ - Renewal of approval for placing on the market - Candidates for substitution - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Associations - Proportionality - Precautionary principle - Manifest error of assessment - Expert’s report)
      (2021/C 490/31)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Union Copper Task Force (Springfield, United Kingdom) (represented by: I. Moreno-Tapia Rivas and C. Vila Gisbert, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castilla Contreras and I. Naglis, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: L. Stefani, C. Ionescu Dima and A. Tamás, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: D. Kornilaki and E. Karlsson, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1981 of 13 December 2018 renewing the approval of the active substances copper compounds, as candidates for substitution, 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 2018 L 317, p. 16).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders European Union Copper Task Force to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 155, 6.5.2019.