CELEX: 62015TB0600
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-600/15: Order of the General Court of 28 September 2016 — PAN Europe and Others v European Commission (Actions for annulment — Plant-protection products — Active substance sulfoxaflor — Inclusion in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 — Lack of direct concern — Inadmissibility)

21.11.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 428/16
            
         Order of the General Court of 28 September 2016 — PAN Europe and Others v European Commission
   (Case T-600/15) (1)
   
   ((Actions for annulment - Plant-protection products - Active substance sulfoxaflor - Inclusion in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 - Lack of direct concern - Inadmissibility))
   (2016/C 428/18)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) (Brussels, Belgium), Bee Life European Beekeeping Coordination (Bee Life) (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Unione nazionale associazioni apicoltori italiani (Unaapi) (Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy) (represented by: B. Kloostra and A. van den Biesen, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Pignataro-Nolin, G. von Rintelen and P. Ondrůšek, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU and seeking the annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1295 of 27 July 2015, approving the active substance sulfoxaflor, 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 2015 L 199, p. 8).
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               There is no need to adjudicate on the applications to intervene from the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), Dow AgroSciences Ltd and Dow AgroSciences Iberica SA.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), Bee Life European Beekeeping Coordination (Bee Life) and Unione nazionale associazioni apicoltori italiani (Unaapi) shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               PAN Europe, Bee Life, Unaapi, the Commission, ECPA, Dow AgroSciences and Dow AgroSciences Iberica shall each bear their own costs in relation to the applications to intervene.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 59, 15.2.2016.