CELEX: 62012CA0427
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-427/12: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 18 March 2014  — European Commission v European Parliament, Council of the European Union (Action for annulment  — Choice of legal basis  — Articles 290 TFEU and 291 TFEU  — Delegated act and implementing act  — Regulation (EU) No 528/2012  — Article 80(1)  — Biocidal products  — European Chemicals Agency  — Setting of fees by the Commission)

12.5.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 142/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 18 March 2014 — European Commission v European Parliament, Council of the European Union
   (Case C-427/12) (1)
   
   ((Action for annulment - Choice of legal basis - Articles 290 TFEU and 291 TFEU - Delegated act and implementing act - Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 - Article 80(1) - Biocidal products - European Chemicals Agency - Setting of fees by the Commission))
   2014/C 142/08
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: B. Smulders, C. Zadra and E. Manhaeve, Agents)
   
      Defendants: European Parliament (represented by: L. Visaggio and A. Troupiotis, Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Moore and I. Šulce, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendants: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, E. Ruffer and D. Hadroušek, Agents), Kingdom of Denmark (represented by: V. Pasternak Jørgensen and C. Thorning, Agents), French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues, D. Colas and N. Rouam, Agents), Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: M. Bulterman and M. Noort, Agents), Republic of Finland (represented by: H. Leppo and J. Leppo, Agents), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: C. Murrell and M. Holt, Agents, and by B. Kennelly, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment — Article 80(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products (OJ 2012 L 167, p. 1), in so far as it provides for the adoption of measures setting the fees payable to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) by an implementing act under Article 291 TFEU and not by a delegated act in accordance with Article 290 TFEU — Choice of legal basis — Attribution of the regulatory powers which the EU legislature may confer on the Commission.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
      The Court:
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Finland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own respective costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 355, 17.11.2012.