1By its appeal, PlasticsEurope AISBL, an association representing the interests of European producers of plastics, asks the Court of Justice to set aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 16 December 2020, PlasticsEurope v ECHA (T‑207/18, EU:T:2020:623; ‘the judgment under appeal’), by which the latter dismissed its action for annulment of Decision ED/01/2018 of the Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of 3 January 2018 (‘the decision at issue’), by which the existing entry relating to bisphenol A on the list of identified substances with a view to their eventual inclusion in Annex XIV to 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 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 (EU) No 253/2011 of 15 March 2011 (OJ 2011 L 69, p. 7) (‘the REACH Regulation’), was supplemented to the effect that bisphenol A is also identified as belonging to the group of substances under Article 57(f) of the REACH Regulation, namely those with endocrine disrupting properties that may have serious effects on the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern to those of other substances listed in Article 57(a) to (e) of that regulation.
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