CELEX: 61997TO0256
Language: en
Date: 1999-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber, extended composition) of 1 February 1999. # Bureau européen des unions de consommateurs (BEUC) v Commission of the European Communities. # Antidumping investigation - Consumers association - Refusal of recognition as interested party - Application for annulment - Expiry of regulation imposing provisional antidumping duty - Legal interest to proceed - No need to adjudicate. # Case T-256/97.

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61997B0256

Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber, extended composition) of 1 February 1999.  -  Bureau européen des unions de consommateurs (BEUC) v Commission of the European Communities.  -  Antidumping investigation - Consumers association - Refusal of recognition as interested party - Application for annulment - Expiry of regulation imposing provisional antidumping duty - Legal interest to proceed - No need to adjudicate.  -  Case T-256/97.  

European Court reports 1999 Page II-00169

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Actions for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Action contesting a decision which has already been implemented (EC Treaty, Art. 173) 

Summary

The legal interest of a consumers' association in maintaining an action for annulment of a Commission decision refusing to recognise it as an interested party for the purposes of an anti-dumping proceeding can continue to exist even when that decision has already been implemented.  The annulment of such a decision is capable, of itself, of having legal consequences and particularly that of preventing a repetition of the Commission's practice.