Vergunning voor geneesmiddel tegen leveraandoeningen

Gerecht EU 4 juli 2012, zaak T-12/12 (Laboratoires CTRS/Europese Commissie)

Laboratoires CTRS heeft een vergunning aangevraagd voor het verhandelen van het geneesmiddel Orphacol voor behandeling van leveraandoeningen. Deze vergunning is door de Commissie geweigerd. In beroep heeft Laboratoires CTRS nietigverklaring van deze beslissing gevorderd. Middel: redelijke beslissingstermijn overschreden, ontoereikende motivering. Het Gerecht EU wijst de klacht af en veroordeelt de Commissie in de proceskostenvergoeding.

55 It must therefore be held that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action in so far as it seeks the annulment of the decision contained in the Commission’s letter of 5 December 2011, as the applicant no longer has any interest in challenging that decision because of the adoption of the decision of 25 May 2012, and because the applicant has not requested leave to amend the form of order sought with a view to requesting annulment of the decision of 25 May 2012.

56 The applicant’s argument, advanced in its reply to the Court of 14 June 2012, according to which the adoption of the decision of 25 May 2012 does not mean that the decision contained in the Commission’s letter of 5 December 2011 can no longer be annulled, cannot call into question the foregoing findings. By reason of the adoption, by the Commission, of the decision of 25 May 2012, that annulment would not be capable of procuring any benefit for the applicant, because the refusal to grant the MA, which adversely affects the applicant, would continue on the basis of that decision.