CELEX: 62021TN0781
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-781/21: Action brought on 18 December 2021 — EAA v Commission

14.2.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/54
            
         
      Action brought on 18 December 2021 — EAA v Commission
      (Case T-781/21)
      (2022/C 73/68)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Aluminium Association (EAA) (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: B. O’Connor and M. Hommé, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1784, by which the Commission does not order the collection of provisional duties;
               
            
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                  order the Commission to pay the applicant’s costs incurred by this application.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      In support of the action for annulment of Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1784 (1), the applicant relies on three pleas in law.
      
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                  First plea in law, alleging that the Commission has acted in breach of Regulation 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2), and in particular Article 10(2) thereof, the object and purpose of Regulation 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council and the established Commission practice to order the collection of provisional duties.
               
            
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                  Second plea in law, alleging that the Commission has not complied with the obligation under Article 296 TFEU to state reasons.
               
            
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                  Third plea in law, alleging that the Commission did not comply with the principles of due process and good administration.
               
            
         (1)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1784, of 8 October 2021, imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of aluminium flat-rolled products originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ 2021 L 359, p. 6).
      
         (2)  Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 8 June 2016, on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union (OJ 2016 L 176, p. 21).