CELEX: 62020TA0116
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-116/20: Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Società agricola Vivai Maiorana and Others v Commission (Agriculture — Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 — Protective measures against pests of plants — List of Union regulated non-quarantine pests — Threshold above which the presence of a Union regulated non-quarantine pest on plants for planting has an unacceptable economic impact — Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 — Professional Associations — Action for annulment — Locus standi — Admissibility — Proportionality — Obligation to state reasons)

22.11.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/45
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Società agricola Vivai Maiorana and Others v Commission
      (Case T-116/20) (1)
      
      (Agriculture - Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 - Protective measures against pests of plants - List of Union regulated non-quarantine pests - Threshold above which the presence of a Union regulated non-quarantine pest on plants for planting has an unacceptable economic impact - Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 - Professional Associations - Action for annulment - Locus standi - Admissibility - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2021/C 471/63)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Società agricola Vivai Maiorana Ss (Curinga, Italy), Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori — CIA (Rome, Italy), MIVA — Moltiplicatori Italiani Viticoli Associati (Faenza, Italy) (represented by: E.Scoccini and G. Scoccini, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Eggers and F. Moro, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: S. Emmerechts, A. Vitro and S. Barbagallo, acting as Agents), European Parliament (represented by: L. Knudsen and G. Mendola, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application for the annulment of parts A, B, C, F, I and J of annex IV to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2019 (JO 2019, L 319, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Società agricola Vivai Maiorana Ss, Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori — CIA and MIVA — Moltiplicatori Italiani Viticoli Associati to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 129, 20.4.2020.