Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 12 March 2014 — PAN Europe v Commission

(Case T‑192/12)

Action for annulment — Environment — Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1143/2011 approving the active substance prochloraz — Request for internal review — Refusal — Conditions to be satisfied by an organisation in order to be entitled to make a request for internal review — Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law

1.                     Actions for annulment — Jurisdiction of the EU judicature — Claim seeking that directions be issued to an institution — Claim for a declaratory judgment — Inadmissibility (Art. 263 TFEU) (see paras 14, 15)

2.                     Environment — Implementing Regulation No 1143/2011 approving the active substance prochloraz — Request for an internal review under Regulation No 1367/2006 — Admissibility — Conditions — Non-governmental organisation making the application having existed for more than two years — Burden of proof borne by the organisation (European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1367/2006, Arts 10 and 11(1)(c)) (see paras 19, 21)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of the Commission’s Decision of 9 March 2012 rejecting as inadmissible the request made by the applicant for review by the Commission of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1143/2011 of 10 November 2011 approving the active substance prochloraz, 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 and Commission Decision 2008/934/EC (OJ 2011 L 293, p. 26).

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed.

2. Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) is ordered to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.