CELEX: 62017TA0108
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-108/17: Judgment of the General Court of 4 April 2019 — ClientEarth v Commission (REACH — Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) — Request for internal review of a decision on marketing authorisation rejected as unfounded — Error of law — Manifest error of assessment — Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006)

3.6.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 187/66
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 4 April 2019 — ClientEarth v Commission
      (Case T-108/17) (1)
      
      (REACH - Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) - Request for internal review of a decision on marketing authorisation rejected as unfounded - Error of law - Manifest error of assessment - Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006)
      (2019/C 187/70)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: ClientEarth (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: A. Jones, Barrister)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara, R. Lindenthal and K. Mifsud-Bonnici, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: European Chemicals Agency (represented by: M. Heikkilä and W. Broere, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the letter of the Commission of 7 December 2016 by which that institution rejected a request for internal review of 2 August 2016 against Commission Implementing Decision C(2016) 3549 final of 16 June 2016, granting an authorisation for uses of bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders ClientEarth to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 121, 18.4.2017.