Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2016:500
Date: 2016-09-15
Language of the case: English
Subject matter: Dumping;External relations;Commercial policy
Procedure: Action for annulment - successful

Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 15 September 2016 — PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri v Council (Case T‑121/14) Dumping — Imports of biodiesel originating in Indonesia — Definitive anti-dumping duty — Article 2(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Normal value — Production costs 1. Common commercial policy — Protection against dumping — Dumping margin — Determination of the normal value — Recourse to the constructed value — Calculation of production costs on the basis of accounting registers — Derogation — Costs linked to the production and sale of the product subject to the investigation not reasonably reflected in those registers — Burden of proof borne by the institutions — Judicial review — Scope (Council Regulations No 1972/2002, fourth recital, and No 1225/2009, Arts 2(3), second para., and 5, first and second paras) (see paras 45-49, 53-77) 2. Actions for annulment — Subject-matter — Partial annulment — Condition — Severability of the contested provisions — Provision of a regulation imposing definitive anti-dumping duties — Annulment entailing a modification of the substance of the regulation (Art. 263 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1194/2013, Art. 1) (see paras 80-82) Re: ACTION pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1194/2013 of 19 November 2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of biodiesel originating in Argentina and Indonesia (OJ 2013 L 315, p. 2) in so far as it imposes an anti-dumping duty on the applicant. Operative part The Court: 1. Annuls Articles 1 and 2 of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1194/2013 of 19 November 2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of biodiesel originating in Argentina and Indonesia, in so far as they concern PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri; 2. Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri; 3. Orders the European Commission and the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) to bear their own costs.