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(Case T-562/19 RENV) (<span class="oj-super oj-note-tag">1</span>)
(Actions for failure to act - Medical devices - Article 8(1) and (2) of Directive 93/42/EEC - Safeguard clause procedure - Notification by a Member State of a decision prohibiting the placing on the market of a medical device - Absence of a decision by the Commission - Repeal of Directive 93/42 - Articles 94 to 97 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 - Market surveillance measures - Action manifestly well founded)
(2023/C 223/38)
Language of the case: German
Applicant: Christoph Klein (Großgmain, Austria) (represented by: H.-J. Ahlt, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Hermes, E. Sanfrutos Cano and F. Thiran, acting as Agents)
By his action under Article 265 TFEU, the applicant asks the General Court to declare that the European Commission unlawfully failed to act in the safeguard clause procedure initiated on 7 January 1998 by the Federal Republic of Germany and to take a decision in accordance with Directive 93/42/EEC of the Council of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices (OJ 1993 L 169, p. 1), in relation to the ‘Inhaler Broncho-Air®’ device.
1.The European Commission has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 8(2) of Directive 93/42/EEC of the Council of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices by failing to act in the safeguard clause procedure initiated on 7 January 1998 by the Federal Republic of Germany and to take a decision in accordance with Directive 93/42, replaced by Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42, in relation to the Inhaler Broncho-Air® device.
2.The Commission shall pay the costs related to the appeal proceedings before the Court in Case C-430/20 P and those related to the initial proceedings in Case T-562/19 and to the proceedings referred back to the General Court in Case T-562/19 RENV.
(<span class="oj-super">1</span>) OJ C 337, 7.10.2019.