Judgment_paragraph 1 · Polyelectrolyte Producers Group GEIE (PPG) and SNF SAS v European Chemicals Agency (C-650/15 P)

1By their appeal, Polyelectrolyte Producers Group GEIE (PPG) and SNF SAS ask the Court to set aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 25 September 2015, PPG and SNF v ECHA (T‑268/10 RENV, ‘the judgment under appeal’, EU:T:2015:698) by which that Court dismissed their action for annulment of the decision of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), of 22 December 2009, identifying acrylamide (EC No 201-173-7) as a substance meeting the criteria laid down in Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ 2006 L 396, p. 1, and corrigendum OJ 2007 L 136, p. 3), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2009 of 22 June 2009 (OJ 2009 L 164, p. 7) (‘the REACH Regulation’), in accordance with Article 59 of that regulation (‘the decision at issue’).