CELEX: 62019TN0317
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-317/19: Action brought on 23 May 2019 — AMVAC Netherlands v Commission

5.8.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/50
            
         
      Action brought on 23 May 2019 — AMVAC Netherlands v Commission
      (Case T-317/19)
      (2019/C 263/57)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: AMVAC Netherlands BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: C. Mereu, M. Grunchard and S. Englebert, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/344 of 28 February 2019; (1)
                  
               
            
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                  order the defendant to pay all the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      In support of the action, the applicant relies on five pleas in law.
      
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                  First plea in law, alleging that the contested regulation was adopted further to a manifest error of assessment.
               
            
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                  Second plea in law, alleging that the contested regulation results from a procedure during which the applicant’s rights of defence were not respected.
               
            
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                  Third plea in law, alleging that the contested regulation was adopted in breach of the principle of legal certainty.
               
            
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                  Fourth plea in law, alleging that the contested regulation was adopted in breach of the proportionality principle.
               
            
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                  Fifth plea in law, alleging that the contested regulation was adopted in breach of the precautionary principle.
               
            
         (1)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/344 of 28 February 2019 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance ethoprophos, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (OJ 2019 L 62, p. 7).