CELEX: 62000TJ0301
Non-contractual liability of the Community
Incompatibility of the Community regime governing the import of bananas with the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Imposition by the United States of America of retaliatory measures in the form of increased customs duty levied on imports from the Community, pursuant to a WTO authorisation
Decision of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body
Legal effects
Community liability in the absence of unlawful conduct of its institutions
Causal link
Unusual and special damage

ACTION for compensation in respect of the damage allegedly caused by the levying by the United States of America of increased
customs duty on imports of the applicants’ cotton bed linen, as authorised by the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), following a finding that the Community regime governing the import of bananas was incompatible with the
agreements and understandings annexed to the Agreement establishing the WTO.
Operative part
The Court:

Dismisses the action;

Orders the applicants to bear, in addition to their own costs, the costs incurred by the Council and the Commission;

Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.