CELEX: E2016J0009
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 14 July 2017 in Case E-9/16 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway (REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 – Chemical substances – Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) – Free movement – Restrictions procedure – Legal basis)

4.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 1/7
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 14 July 2017
   in Case E-9/16
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway
   
      (REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 – Chemical substances – Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) – Free movement – Restrictions procedure – Legal basis)
   
   (2018/C 1/09)
   In Case E-9/16, EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway – APPLICATION for a declaration that Norway has failed to fulfil its obligations arising from the Act referred to at point 12zc of Chapter XV of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (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)), as adapted under its Protocol 1, and/or its obligations under the Agreement, by maintaining in force a national provision such as Section 2-32 of the Norwegian Product Regulation which bans the manufacture, import, export and sale of consumer products containing certain concentrations of perfluorooctanoic acid, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President and Judge-Rapporteur, Per Christiansen and Ása Ólafsdóttir (ad hoc), Judges, gave judgment on 14 July 2017, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the EFTA Surveillance Authority to bear the costs of the proceedings.