Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 15 September 2016 —

Molinos Río de la Plata and Others v Council

(Cases T‑112/14 to T‑116/14 and T‑119/14)

‛Dumping — Imports of biodiesel originating in Argentina — Definitive anti-dumping duty — Action for annulment — Trade association — Direct concern — Individual concern — Admissibility — Article 2(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Normal value — Production costs’

1. Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Action brought by a trade association set up to protect and represent its members — Admissibility — Conditions — Action brought in parallel by a Member — Inadmissibility of the association’s action (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 33-37, 63, 64)

2. Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Individual concern — Criteria — Regulation imposing anti-dumping duties (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 40-61)

3. Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Whether directly concerned — Criteria — Regulation imposing anti-dumping duties (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see para. 62)

4. 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 to third paras) (see paras 71-76, 80-103)

5. 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 Regulations No 1194/2013, Art. 1) (see paras 107-109)

Re:

ACTIONS pursuant to Article 263 TFEU, in Case T-119/14, 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), and, in Cases T-112/14 and T-116/14, for annulment of that regulation in so far as it imposes an anti-dumping duty on the applicants in those cases.

Operative part

The Court:

1. Joins Cases T‑112/14, T‑113/14, T‑114/14, T‑115/14, T‑116/14 and T‑119/14 for the purposes of the decision closing the proceedings;

2. 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 Molinos Río de la Plata SA, Oleaginosa Moreno Hermanos SAFICI y A, Vicentin SAIC, Aceitera General Deheza SA and Bunge Argentina SA;

3. Dismisses the action in Case T‑119/14 as to the remainder;

4. Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs in Cases T‑112/14 to T‑116/14 and also to pay the costs incurred by Molinos Río de la Plata in Case T‑112/14, by Oleaginosa Moreno Hermanos in Case T‑113/14, by Vincentin in Case T‑114/14, by Aceitera General Deheza in Case T‑115/14 and by Bunge Argentina in Case T‑116/14;

5. Orders Cámara Argentina de Biocombustibles (Carbio) and the Council to bear their own costs in Case T‑119/14;