CELEX: 62010TA0268
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-268/10 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2015 — PPG and SNF v ECHA (REACH — Identification of acrylamide as a substance of very high concern — Intermediates — Action for annulment — Whether directly concerned — Admissibility — Proportionality — Equal treatment)

23.11.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2015 — PPG and SNF v ECHA
   (Case T-268/10 RENV) (1)
   
   ((REACH - Identification of acrylamide as a substance of very high concern - Intermediates - Action for annulment - Whether directly concerned - Admissibility - Proportionality - Equal treatment))
   (2015/C 389/24)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Polyelectrolyte Producers Group GEIE (PPG) (Brussels, Belgium) and SNF SAS (Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France) (represented by: R. Cana, D. Abrahams and E. Mullier, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented by: M. Heikkilä, W. Broere and T. Zbihlej, acting as Agents, and by J. Stuyck and A.-M. Vandromme, lawyers)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: B. Koopman, acting as Agent); and European Commission (represented by: D. Kukovec, E. Manhaeve and K. Talabér-Ritz, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of ECHA (EC No 201-173-7) identifying acrylamide as a substance fulfilling the criteria referred to in Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006, concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ 2006 L 396, p. 1), in accordance with Article 59 thereof.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Polyelectrolyte Producers Group GEIE (PPG) and SNF SAS to pay their own costs and those incurred by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 274, 9.10.2010.