CELEX: 62010TA0262
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-262/10: Judgment of the General Court of 25 October 2011 — Microban International and Microban (Europe) v Commission (Public health — List of additives which may be used in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs — Withdrawal by the original applicant of the application for inclusion of an additive on the list — Commission decision not to include 2,4,4’-trichloro-2’-hydroxydiphenyl ether in the list — Actions for annulment — Admissibility — Regulatory act — Whether directly concerned — No implementing measures — Legal basis)

3.12.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 355/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 October 2011 — Microban International and Microban (Europe) v Commission
   (Case T-262/10) (1)
   
   (Public health - List of additives which may be used in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs - Withdrawal by the original applicant of the application for inclusion of an additive on the list - Commission decision not to include 2,4,4’-trichloro-2’-hydroxydiphenyl ether in the list - Actions for annulment - Admissibility - Regulatory act - Whether directly concerned - No implementing measures - Legal basis)
   2011/C 355/33
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Microban International (Huntersville, North Carolina, United States) and Microban (Europe) Ltd (Cannock, United Kingdom) (represented by: M. Sánchez Rydelski, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Pignataro and T. Scharf, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision 2010/169/EU of 19 March 2010 concerning the non-inclusion of 2,4,4’-trichloro-2’-hydroxydiphenyl ether in the Union list of additives which may be used in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs under Directive 2002/72/EC (OJ 2010 L 75, p. 25).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2010/169/EU of 19 March 2010 concerning the non-inclusion of 2,4,4’-trichloro-2’-hydroxydiphenyl ether in the Union list of additives which may be used in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs under Directive 2002/72/EC.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay its own costs and those incurred by Microban International Ltd and Microban (Europe) Ltd.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 221, 14.8.2010.