CELEX: 62006TO0312
Language: en
Date: 2008-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 17 June 2008. # FMC Chemical SPRL v European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). # Action for annulment - Action for damages - Directive 91/414/EEC - Plant protection products - Opinion of the European Food Safety Authority - Non-actionable measure - Preparatory measure - Inadmissibility. # Case T-312/06.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 17 June 2008 – FMC Chemical v EFSA
      (Case T-312/06)
      Action for annulment – Action for damages – Directive 91/414/EEC – Plant protection products – Opinion of the European Food Safety Authority – Non-actionable measure – Preparatory measure – Inadmissibility
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Definition – Measures producing binding legal effects (Art. 230 EC; Commission
            Regulation No 451/2000, Art. 8(7); Council Directive No 91/414) (see paras 43-44, 49-50)
      2.                     Plea of illegality  – Incidental nature – Main action inadmissible (Art. 241 EC) (see paras 71-72)
      3.                     Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements (Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 21, first para.,
            and 53, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 44(1)) (see paras 77-79, 81-82)
      4.                     Procedure – Measures of organisation of procedure – Request for production of documents (Rules of Procedure of the Court of
            First Instance, Art. 64(3)(d) and(4)) (see paras 86-88)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for (i) annulment of the opinion of EFSA of 28 July 2006 on the assessment of the active substance carbosulfan
                  under Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ 1991
                  L 230, p. 1), and (ii) compensation for the damage sustained.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders FMC Chemical SPRL, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) and the
                     Commission each to bear their own costs.