CELEX: 62016TB0762
Language: en
Date: 2018-01-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-762/16: Order of the General Court of 15 January 2018 — ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange and ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe v ECHA (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents held by the ECHA — Request relating to documents and to the identity of an initial requestor of access to information of a registrant of substances under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 — Partial refusal of access — Withdrawal of the decision refusing access — No need to adjudicate)

12.3.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 94/26
            
         Order of the General Court of 15 January 2018 — ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange and ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe v ECHA
   (Case T-762/16) (1)
   
   ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents held by the ECHA - Request relating to documents and to the identity of an initial requestor of access to information of a registrant of substances under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 - Partial refusal of access - Withdrawal of the decision refusing access - No need to adjudicate))
   (2018/C 094/34)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange SA (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) and ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany) (represented by: H. Scheidmann and M. Kottmann, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented: initially by M. Heikkilä, C. Buchanan and E. Maurage, and subsequently by M. Heikkilä, C. Buchanan and W. Broere, acting as Agents, and by G. Gilmore, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking annulment of Decision ATD/52/2016 of the ECHA of 26 September 2016, notified to the applicants on 28 September 2016, which granted partial access to the requested documents regarding an earlier application for access to documents held by the ECHA.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application for leave to intervene made by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
            
         
               3.
            
            
               The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) shall, in addition to bearing its own costs, pay those incurred by ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange SA and ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               The EMA shall bear its own costs relating to the application for leave to intervene.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 14, 16.1.2017.