CELEX: 62019TA0176
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-176/19: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — 3V Sigma v ECHA (REACH — Substance evaluation — UVASORB HEB — Decision of the ECHA requesting further information — Article 46(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Request seeking to identify potential transformation or degradation products of the substance — Proportionality — Need for the additional study requested — Relevant conditions and realistic conditions — Study temperature — Manifest error of assessment)

15.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — 3V Sigma v ECHA
      (Case T-176/19) (1)
      
      (REACH - Substance evaluation - UVASORB HEB - Decision of the ECHA requesting further information - Article 46(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Request seeking to identify potential transformation or degradation products of the substance - Proportionality - Need for the additional study requested - Relevant conditions and realistic conditions - Study temperature - Manifest error of assessment)
      (2021/C 53/44)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: 3V Sigma SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: C. Bryant and S. Hainsworth, Solicitors, and by D. Anderson, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (represented by: A. Hautamäki, J. Alaranta and W. Broere, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: J. Möller, D. Klebs, and S. Heimerl, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment in part of Decision A-004-2017 of the ECHA Board of Appeal of 15 January 2019 in so far as it dismissed the applicant’s appeal against the decision of the ECHA of 20 December 2016 requiring that further information be provided about the substance UVASORB HEB and in so far as the deadline for providing that information was set at 22 October 2020.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders 3V Sigma SpA to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), including those incurred in connection with the proceedings for interim relief;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 172, 20.5.2019.