CELEX: 62017TA0755
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-755/17: Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 –Germany v ECHA (REACH — Evaluation of substances — Benpat — Persistence — ECHA decision requesting further information — Article 51(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Action brought before the Board of Appeal — Task of the Board of Appeal — Adversarial procedure — Nature of review — Intensity of review — Powers of the Board of Appeal — Article 93(3) of Regulation No 1907/2006 — Conferral of powers on EU agencies — Principle of conferral — Principle of subsidiarity — Proportionality — Obligation to state reasons)

2.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 406/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 –Germany v ECHA
      (Case T-755/17) (1)
      
      (REACH - Evaluation of substances - Benpat - Persistence - ECHA decision requesting further information - Article 51(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Action brought before the Board of Appeal - Task of the Board of Appeal - Adversarial procedure - Nature of review - Intensity of review - Powers of the Board of Appeal - Article 93(3) of Regulation No 1907/2006 - Conferral of powers on EU agencies - Principle of conferral - Principle of subsidiarity - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2019/C 406/35)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented: initially by T. Henze and D. Klebs, and subsequently by D. Klebs, Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (represented: initially by M. Heikkilä, W. Broere and C. Jacquet, and subsequently by W. Broere, C. Jacquet and L. Bolzonello Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Konstantinidis, R. Lindenthal and M. Noll-Ehlers, Agents), and by Envigo Consulting Ltd (Huntingdon, United Kingdom) and Djchem Chemicals Poland S.A. (Wołomin, Poland), (represented by: R. Cana, É. Mullier and H. Widemann, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for the partial annulment of Decision A-026-2015 of the Board of Appeal of the ECHA of 8 September 2017, in so far as it partially annulled the decision of the ECHA of 1 October 2015 requiring the conduct of further testing concerning the substance benpat (CAS 68953-84-4).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls Decision A-026-2015 of the Board of Appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of 8 September 2017, in so far as, in point 3 of the operative part of that decision, the Board of Appeal decided that the claim concerning bioaccumulation in the statement of reasons for the ECHA decision of 1 October 2015 requiring additional testing concerning the substance benpat (CAS 68953-84-4) should be deleted;
                  
               
            
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                     Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs, the costs incurred by the ECHA, and those incurred by Envigo Consulting Ltd and Djchem Chemicals Poland S.A.;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the European Commission to pay its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 32, 29.1.2018.