Judgment_paragraph 78 · Bayer CropScience SA-NV and Stichting De Bijenstichting v College voor de toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden (C-442/14)

78In that regard, although the placing of a product on the market alone is not sufficient in general to consider that that product must necessarily be released into the environment and that information concerning it relates to ‘emissions into the environment’, the situation is different as regards a product, such as a plant protection product or biocide, which is, in the context of normal use, intended to be released into the environment by virtue of its function. Therefore the foreseeable emissions from that product into the environment are not, in the latter case, hypothetical.