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Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 15 September 2016.
PT Wilmar Bioenergi Indonesia and PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia v Council of the European Union.
Dumping — Imports of biodiesel originating in Indonesia — Definitive anti-dumping duties — Article 2(3) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Normal value — Production costs.
Case T-139/14.

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Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 15 September 2016 —

PT Wilmar Bioenergi Indonesia and PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia v Council

(Case T‑139/14)

‛Dumping — Imports of biodiesel originating in Indonesia — Definitive anti-dumping duties — Article 2(3) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Normal value — Production costs’

1. 

Judicial proceedings — Introduction of new pleas during the proceedings — Amplification of a plea made earlier — Admissibility (Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1991), Arts 44(1)(c), and 48(2)) (see paras 35, 36)

2. 

Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Regulation imposing anti-dumping duties (Art. 296 TFEU) (see paras 38-40)

3. 

Common commercial policy — Protection against dumping — Dumping margin — Determination of the normal value — Derogations from the method of fixing the normal value by reference to the actual price laid down by the basic anti-dumping regulation — Exhaustive nature (Council Regulation No 1225/2009, Art. 2(3), first para.) (see para. 41)

4. 

EU law — Principles — Rights of defence — Observance thereof in the context of administrative proceedings — Anti-dumping — Duty of the institutions to keep the undertakings concerned informed — Scope (Council Regulation No 1225/2009, Art. 20(2)) (see para. 53)

5. 

Common commercial policy — Protection against dumping — Dumping margin — Determination of the normal value — Recourse to the constructed value — Calculation of production costs on the basis of accounting registers — Derogation — Costs linked to the production and sale of the product subject to the investigation not reasonably reflected in those registers — Burden of proof borne by the institutions — Judicial review — Scope (Council Regulations No 1972/2002, fourth recital, and No 1225/2009, Arts 2(3), second para., and 5, first to third paras) (see paras 72-76, 80-105)

6. 

Actions for annulment — Subject-matter — Partial annulment — Condition — Severability of the contested provisions — Provision of a regulation imposing definitive anti-dumping duties — Annulment entailing a modification of the substance of the regulation (Art. 263 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1194/2013, Art. 1) (see paras 107-109)

Re:

ACTION pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1194/2013 of 19 November 2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of biodiesel originating in Argentina and Indonesia (OJ 2013 L 315, p. 2) in so far as the applicants are concerned.

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Annuls Articles 1 and 2 of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1194/2013 of 19 November 2013 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of biodiesel originating in Argentina and Indonesia, in so far as they concern PT Wilmar Bioenergi Indonesia and PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia;

2.

Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by PT Wilmar Bioenergi Indonesia and PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia;

3.

Orders the European Commission and the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) to bear their own costs.

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