Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2002:52
Date: 2002-02-28
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Dumping;External relations;Commercial policy
Concepts: Applications by natural or legal persons
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Austria;Germany;France;United Kingdom

Summary of the Judgment 
Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual 
concern to them — Regulation imposing an anti-dumping duty — Undertaking par­
ticipating in the administrative procedure — Inadmissibility 
(EC Treaty, Art. 173, fourth para, (now, after amendment, Art. 230, fourth para., EC)) 
Although participation by an undertaking 
in an anti-dumping proceeding may be 
taken into account, amongst other factors, 
in order to establish whether that under­
taking is individually concerned, within the 
meaning of the fourth paragraph of 
Article 173 EC (now, after amendment, 
the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC), by 
the regulation introducing anti-dumping 
duties adopted at the conclusion of that 
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proceeding, if there are no other factors 
giving rise to a particular situation which 
distinguishes that undertaking from all 
other traders, with respect to the measure 
in question, such participation does not, of 
itself, give rise to a right enabling the 
undertaking to bring a direct action against 
that regulation. For that purpose, the mere 
fact that a number of the applicant under­
takings were specifically named in the 
contested regulation cannot lead to a 
different conclusion. 
(see paras 61-62) 
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