CELEX: 62013TA0360
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-360/13: Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2015 — VECCO and Others v Commission (REACH — Inclusion of chromium trioxide in the list of substances subject to authorisation — Uses or categories of uses exempted from the authorisation requirement — Concept of ‘existing specific Community legislation imposing minimum requirements relating to the protection of human health or the environment for the use of the substance’ — Manifest error of assessment — Proportionality — Rights of the defence — Principle of sound administration)

23.11.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2015 — VECCO and Others v Commission
   (Case T-360/13) (1)
   
   ((REACH - Inclusion of chromium trioxide in the list of substances subject to authorisation - Uses or categories of uses exempted from the authorisation requirement - Concept of ‘existing specific Community legislation imposing minimum requirements relating to the protection of human health or the environment for the use of the substance’ - Manifest error of assessment - Proportionality - Rights of the defence - Principle of sound administration))
   (2015/C 389/33)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Verein zur Wahrung von Einsatz und Nutzung von Chromtrioxid und anderen Chrom-VI-verbindungen in der Oberflächentechnik eV (VECCO) (Memmingen, Germany) and the other 185 applicants whose names are listed in Annex I to the judgment (represented by: C. Mereu, K. Van Maldegem, lawyers, and J. Beck, Solicitor)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Talabér-Ritz and J. Tomkin, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicants: Assogalvanica (Padua, Italy) and the 31 other interveners whose names are listed in Annex II to the judgment (represented by: C. Mereu, K. Van Maldegem and J. Beck)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented by: W. Broere, M. Heikkilä and T. Zbihlej, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for partial annulment of Commission Regulation (EU) No 348/2013 of 17 April 2013 amending Annex XIV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (OJ 2013 L 108, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Verein zur Wahrung von Einsatz und Nutzung von Chromtrioxid und anderen Chrom-VI-verbindungen in der Oberflächentechnik eV (VECCO) and the applicants whose names are listed in Annex I to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Assogalvanica and the other interveners whose names are listed in Annex II to bear their own costs;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 260, 7.9.2013.