Notices for publication in the OJ nº T-655/20 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, January 29, 2021

• Resolution Date: January 29, 2021
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-655/20

Action brought on 27 October 2020 - Symrise v ECHA

(Case T-655/20)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Symrise AG (Holzminden, Germany) (represented by: A, B, C, lawyers)

Defendant: European Chemicals Agency

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul decision of 18 August 2020 of the European Chemicals Agency’s Board of Appeal in case number A-010-2018 in its entirety;

order the Agency to pay the costs of the proceedings.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on five pleas in law.

First plea in law, alleging that the Agency committed a manifest error of assessment and misinterpreted the REACH Regulation by requesting the tests on vertebrate animals on the Substance, by justifying the need for tests by reference to workers’ exposure and by failing to take the safety of the Substance as assessed under the Cosmetics Regulation into account.

Second plea in law, alleging that the Agency committed a manifest error of assessment and breached its duty to state reasons by requesting the extended one-generation reproductive toxicity study with several extensions (the “EOGRTS”).

Third plea in law, alleging that the Agency committed a manifest error of assessment of the information available to it and breached its duty to state...