The General Court of the European Union dismissed the action brought by two manufacturers of plant protection products against the European Commission’s January 2020 decision (see EUROPE B12401A21) to ban the active substance chlorpyrifos-methyl in the EU (implementing regulation 2020/18), in a ruling handed down on Wednesday 4 October (case T-77/20).
The General Court is ruling on a number of issues that have not previously been addressed in the context of plant protection products,...