Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2001:118
Date: 2001-04-05
Language of the case: Italian
Court formation: Second Chamber, Extended Composition
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Dumping;External relations;Commercial policy
Concepts: Statement of reasons
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Spain;France

Summary of the Judgment 
Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope 
(Arts 230 EC and 235 EC) 
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SUMMARY — CASE T-82/00 
The statement of reasons required by 
Article 253 EC, which is an essential pro­
cedural requirement within the meaning of 
Article 230 EC, must be appropriate to the 
act at issue and must disclose in a clear and 
unequivocal fashion the reasoning followed 
by the institution which adopted the meas­
ure in question in such a way as to enable 
the persons concerned to ascertain the 
reasons for the measure and to enable the 
competent Community court to exercise its 
power of review. It is not necessary for the 
reasoning to go into all the relevant facts 
and points of law, since the question 
whether the statement of reasons meets 
the requirements of Article 253 EC must be 
assessed with regard not only to its wording 
but also to its context and to all the legal 
rules governing the matter in question. 
(see para. 24) 
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