18.7.2016

Official Journal of the European Union

C 260/25

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(Case C-244/16 P)

(2016/C 260/32)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Appellant: Industrias Químicas del Vallés, S.A. (represented by: C. Fernández Vicién, I. Moreno-Tapia Rivas and C. Vila Gisbert, abogadas)

Other party to the proceedings: European Commission

Form of order sought

The appellant claims the Court should:

—set aside the order of the General Court of the European Union of 16 February 2016 in Case T-296/15, Industrias Químicas del Vallés, S.A. (IQV) v European Commission;

—declare as admissible IQV’s application for annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/408; (1)

—refer the case back to the General Court of the European Union in order to rule on the substance of Case T-296/15;

—order the European Commission to pay the costs of these proceedings.

Pleas in law and main arguments

(i)The General Court erred in law in holding, in the order under appeal, that the contested regulation is a regulatory act which includes, as regards the applicant, implementing measures for the purposes of Article 263(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

(ii)The General Court erred in law in holding, in the order under appeal, that the inadmissibility of IQV’s action against the contested regulation did not deprive it of an effective judicial remedy.

(iii)The General Court erred in law in holding, in the order under appeal, that IQV was not individually affected by the contested regulation.

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(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/408 of 11 March 2015 on implementing Article 80(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and establishing a list of candidates for substitution (OJ L 67, p. 18).

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