CELEX: 62012CA0404
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-404/12 P and C-405/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 January 2015 — Council of the European Union, European Commission v Stichting Natuur en Milieu, Pesticide Action Network Europe (Appeals — Regulation (EC) No 149/2008 — Regulation setting maximum residue levels for pesticides — Request for internal review of that regulation, submitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Commission decision declaring the request inadmissible — Measure of individual scope — Aarhus Convention — Validity of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 in the light of that convention)

2.3.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/3
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 January 2015 — Council of the European Union, European Commission v Stichting Natuur en Milieu, Pesticide Action Network Europe
      (Joined Cases C-404/12 P and C-405/12 P) (1)
      
      (Appeals - Regulation (EC) No 149/2008 - Regulation setting maximum residue levels for pesticides - Request for internal review of that regulation, submitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 - Commission decision declaring the request inadmissible - Measure of individual scope - Aarhus Convention - Validity of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 in the light of that convention)
      (2015/C 073/03)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Parties
      
      
         Appellants: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Moore and K. Michoel, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne, P. Oliver and S. Boelaert, acting as Agents)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Stichting Natuur en Milieu, Pesticide Action Network Europe (represented by: A. van den Biesen, advocaat)
      
         Intervener in support of the appellants: Czech Republic (represented by D. Hadroušek, acting as Agent)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1)
               
               
                  Dismisses the cross-appeal;
               
            
                  2)
               
               
                  Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union in Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Pesticide Action Network Europe v Commission (T-338/08, EU:T:2012:300);
               
            
                  3)
               
               
                  Dismisses the application for annulment lodged by Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Pesticide Action Network Europe before the General Court of the European Union;
               
            
                  4)
               
               
                  Orders Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Pesticide Action Network Europe to pay jointly and severally the costs incurred at first instance and in the appeals by the Council of the European Union and the European Commission;
               
            
                  5)
               
               
                  Orders the Czech Republic to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 9, 12.1.2013.