Directive 70/524/CEE - Action for annulment - Admissibility.

«(Directive 70/524/EEC – Community authorisation of an additive in animal feedingstuffs, linked to the person responsible for putting it into circulation – Transitional rules – Withdrawal of the authorisation – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Conditions for withdrawal – Precautionary principle – Principles of equal treatment, legal certainty, sound administration and good faith)» Summary of the Judgment 1.. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Additives in feedingstuffs – Directive 70/524 – Regulation providing for the withdrawal of authorisation to market certain additives in feedingstuffs – Replacement of a temporary authorisation for an additive with a definitive authorisation – Simultaneous implementation of a procedure for the withdrawal of the additive – Whether permissible (Council Directive 70/524, Arts 9h, 9m and 11) 2.. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Implementation – Requirements relating to protection of public health, safety and the environment to be taken into account – Application of the precautionary principle (Arts 3p EC, 6 EC, 152(1) EC, 153(1) and (2) EC and 174(1) and (2) EC) 3.. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Additives in feedingstuffs – Scientific uncertainty as to the safety of a substance – Application of the precautionary principle – Scope – Limits 4.. Agriculture – Common agricultural policy – Additives in feedingstuffs – Directive 70/524 – Re-evaluation of an additive – Duty of the Commission to inform the person responsible for putting the additive into circulation of the principal gaps in its dossier (Council Directive 70/524, Art. 9m, fifth indent) JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Second Chamber)21 October 2003 (1) ((Directive 70/524/EEC – Community authorisation of an additive in animal feedingstuffs, linked to the person responsible for putting it into circulation – Transitional rules – Withdrawal of the authorisation – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Conditions for withdrawal – Precautionary principle – Principles of equal treatment, legal certainty, sound administration and good faith)) applicant, v defendant, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (Second Chamber), having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 17 July 2003 gives the following On those grounds, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Second Chamber), Forwood Pirrung Meij H. Jung N.J. Forwood Registrar President 1 – Language of the case: French.