CELEX: 62010CN0533
Language: en
Date: 2010-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-533/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal d'instance de Roubaix (France) lodged on 17 November 2010 — CIVAD SA v Receveur des douanes de Roubaix, Directeur régional des douanes et droits indirects de Lille, Administration des douanes

29.1.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 30/23
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal d'instance de Roubaix (France) lodged on 17 November 2010 — CIVAD SA v Receveur des douanes de Roubaix, Directeur régional des douanes et droits indirects de Lille, Administration des douanes
   (Case C-533/10)
   ()
   2011/C 30/38
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal d'instance de Roubaix
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: CIVAD SA
   
      Defendants: Receveur des douanes de Roubaix, Directeur régional des douanes et droits indirects de Lille, Administration des douanes
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does the unlawfulness of a Community regulation, which cannot in fact or in law be challenged by a trader by means of an individual action to have it annulled, amount for that trader to a case of force majeure which permits the time-limit provided for in the second sub-paragraph of Article 236(2) of the Community Customs Code to be exceeded (1)?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the first question is answered in the negative, do the provisions of the third sub-paragraph of Article 236(2) of the Community Customs Code require the customs authorities to repay anti-dumping duties of their own initiative when the unlawfulness of those duties has been found following a challenge to their lawfulness by a Member State of the World Trade Organisation (‘the W.T.O.’):
               
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                           from the time of the first communication of the country concerned contesting the lawfulness of the anti-dumping regulation;
                        
                     
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                           from the time of the panel report finding the unlawfulness of the anti-dumping regulation;
                        
                     
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                           from the time of the report of the Appellate Body of the W.T.O. which led the European Community to recognise the unlawfulness of the anti-dumping regulation?
                        
                     
         
      (1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (OJ 1992 L 302, p. 1).