CELEX: 62010TJ0555
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 24 May 2012. # JBF RAK LLC v Council of the European Union. # Subsidies - Imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate originating in Iran, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates - Definitive countervailing duty and definite collection of provisional duty - Articles 11(8), 15(1) and 30(5) of Regulation (EC) No 597/2009 - Principle of sound administration. # Case T-555/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 24 May 2012 —JBF RAK v Council(Case T‑555/10)
      Subsidies — Imports of certain types of polyethylene terephthalate originating in Iran, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates — Definitive countervailing duty and definite collection of provisional duty — Articles 11(8), 15(1) and 30(5) of Regulation (EC) No 597/2009 — Principle of sound administration
      1.                     Common commercial policy — Protection against subsidisation practices of non-Member States — Imposition of a definitive countervailing
            duty — Calculation error following incorrect information supplied by the main exporter (Council Regulation No 597/2009, Arts 15(1)
            and 30(1)) (see paras 37-42, 65, 66)
      2.                     Common commercial policy — Protection against subsidisation practices of non-Member States — Course of the investigation —
            Communication to the parties concerned of the information gathered — Observations of the parties on the final information —
            Obligation on the Commission to take into account — Scope (Council Regulation No 597/2009, Art. 30(1), (2) and (5)) (see paras 68-87)
      3.                     Common commercial policy — Protection against subsidisation practices of non-Member States — Course of the investigation —
            Powers of the Commission — Limits — Obligation of the undertakings concerned by a complaint to cooperate — Scope (Council
            Regulation No 597/2009, Arts 11(2) and 26) (see para. 80)
      4.                     Common commercial policy — Protection against subsidisation practices of non-Member States — Course of the investigation —
            Obligation to check whether information provided by the parties concerned correct — Scope (Council Regulation No 597/2009,
            Art. 11(8)) (see paras 97-101, 104, 105)
      5.                     Union law — Principles — Principle of sound administration — Duty of diligence — Administrative procedure — Investigation
            concerning subsidisation practices of non-Member States — Scope (see paras 112, 113)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 857/2010 of 27 September 2010 imposing a definitive countervailing
                  duty and collecting definitely the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain types of polyethylene terephthalate originating
                  in Iran, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (OJ 2010 L 254, p. 10).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders JBF RAK LLC to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.