… Advocate General’s Opinion (judgment of 25 October 2017, Polbud - Wykonawstwo, C-106/16, EU:C:2017:804, paragraph 23 and the case-law cited).
48 Under the second paragraph of
Article
252 TFEU, it is the duty of the Advocate General, acting with complete
impartiality
and
independence
, to make, in open court, reasoned submissions on cases which, in accordance with the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, require the Advocate General’s involvement. …
… (c) in
articles
referred to in point (b) where these have a non-nickel coating unless such coating is sufficient to ensure that the rate of nickel release from those parts of such
articles
coming into direct and prolonged contact with the skin will not exceed 0.5 μg/cm2/week for a period of at least two years of normal use of the
article
.
2.
Articles
which are the subject of paragraph 1 shall not be placed on the market unless they conform to the requirements set out in that paragraph.
3. …