CELEX: 62016TA0630
Language: en
Date: 2018-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-630/16: Judgment of the General Court of 16 January 2018 — Dehtochema Bitumat v ECHA (REACH — Fee payable for registration of a substance — Reduction granted to SMEs — Recommendation 2003/361/EC — Notion of linked undertaking — Submission of a ‘Declaration of Wrong Enterprise Size’ — 50 % reduction of the amount of the applicable administrative charge — Authority of the ECHA — Cessation of production of the substance)

26.2.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 72/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 January 2018 — Dehtochema Bitumat v ECHA
   (Case T-630/16) (1)
   
   ((REACH - Fee payable for registration of a substance - Reduction granted to SMEs - Recommendation 2003/361/EC - Notion of linked undertaking - Submission of a ‘Declaration of Wrong Enterprise Size’ - 50 % reduction of the amount of the applicable administrative charge - Authority of the ECHA - Cessation of production of the substance))
   (2018/C 072/45)
   Language of the case: Czech
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dehtochema Bitumat s. r. o. (Bělá pod Bezdězem, Czech Republic) (represented by: P. Holý, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented initially by J.-P. Trnka, E. Maurage and M. Heikkilä, and subsequently by J.-P. Trnka and M. Heikkilä, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Decision SME(2016) 3038 of the ECHA of 7 July 2016 which states that the applicant does not fulfil the conditions to receive a reduction of the fee for medium-sized enterprises and imposing an administrative charge on it.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses as inadmissible the application for the suspension of the enforcement of Decision SME(2016) 3038 of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of 7 July 2016;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Dehtochema Bitumat s. r. o. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 402, 31.10.2016.