CELEX: 62004TA0498
Language: en
Date: 2009-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-498/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 17 June 2009 — Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group v Council (Dumping — Imports of glyphosate originating in China — Status of undertaking operating under market economy conditions — Article 2(7)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96)

1.8.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 180/42
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 17 June 2009 — Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group v Council
   (Case T-498/04) (1)
   
   (Dumping - Imports of glyphosate originating in China - Status of undertaking operating under market economy conditions - Article 2(7)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96)
   2009/C 180/77
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group Co. Ltd (Jiande City, China) (represented by: initially D. Horovitz, lawyer, and B. Hartnett, Barrister, and subsequently D. Horovitz)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: J.-P. Hix, acting as Agent, assisted by G. Berrisch, lawyer)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Association des utilisateurs et distributeurs de l’agrochimie européenne (Audace) (represented by: J. Flynn QC, and D. Scannell, Barrister)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: E. Righini and K. Talabér-Ritz, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment of Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1683/2004 of 24 September 2004 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of glyphosate originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ 2004 L 303, p. 1), in so far as it concerns the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls, in so far as it concerns Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group Co. Ltd, Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1683/2004 of 24 September 2004 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of glyphosate originating in the People’s Republic of China;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Council to bear its own costs and to pay those of Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group Co. Ltd and of the Association des utilisateurs et distributeurs de l’agrochimie européenne (Audace);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 57, 5.3.2005.