CELEX: 62008TA0338
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-338/08: Judgment of the General Court of 14 June 2012 — Stichting Natuur en Milieu, Pesticide Action Network Europe v Commission (Environment — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Maximum residue levels for pesticides — Request for internal review — Refusal — Measure of individual scope — Validity — Aarhus Convention)

21.7.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 June 2012 — Stichting Natuur en Milieu, Pesticide Action Network Europe v Commission
   (Case T-338/08) (1)
   
   (Environment - Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 - Maximum residue levels for pesticides - Request for internal review - Refusal - Measure of individual scope - Validity - Aarhus Convention)
   2012/C 217/32
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Stichting Natuur en Milieu (Utrecht (Netherlands)), Pesticide Action Network Europe (London (United Kingdom)) (represented by: B. Kloostra and A. van den Biesen, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by B. Burggraaf and S. Schønberg and subsequently by B. Burggraaf and P. Oliver, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Republic of Poland (represented initially by M. Dowgielewicz and subsequently by M. Szpunar, Agents); and Council of the European Union (represented by: K. Michoel and B. Driessen, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decisions of the Commission of 1 July 2008 rejecting as inadmissible the requests made by the applicants for review by the Commission of Commission Regulation (EC) No 149/2008 of 29 January 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing Annexes II, III and IV setting maximum residue levels for products covered by Annex I thereto (OJ 2008 L 58, p. 1)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decisions of the Commission of 1 July 2008 rejecting as inadmissible the requests made by Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Pesticide Action Network Europe for review by the Commission of Commission Regulation (EC) No 149/2008 of 29 January 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing Annexes II, III and IV setting maximum residue levels for products covered by Annex I thereto;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Pesticide Action Network Europe;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Polish Republic and the Council of the European Union to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 301, 22.11.2008.