Reported on 13 July 2127 Jun 2022 12:19
EU action
Symphony's legal team has received and reviewed the Defences served by the three Defendants (the Commission, the Parliament and the Council of the European Union ("EU")) to the action it has brought against them in the General Court of the EU. The action is in relation to their decision to adopt Article 5 of the Single Use Plastics Directive 2019/904 ("the Directive").
The Defences did not reveal anything unexpected, and Symphony's legal team remain confident that the EU acted unlawfully in imposing a ban on a material which they call "oxo-degradable plastic" in Article 5 of the Directive. In any event, Symphony does not accept that the ban applies to oxo-BIOdegradable plastics, which are made by incorporating Symphony's d2w masterbatch into ordinary plastic.
Symphony's legal team has accordingly filed Replies to each of the Defences, but a decision by the court is not expected for another 12-18 months.