Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — Hüpeden v Council and Commission

(Case T-206/14) (1)

((Non-contractual liability - Dumping - Imports of certain prepared or preserved citrus fruits originating in China - Regulation (EC) No 1355/2008 declared invalid by the Court of Justice - Loss allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of the adoption of the regulation - Action for damages - Exhaustion of remedies under domestic law - Admissibility - Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals - Article 2(7)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96 (now Article 2(7)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009) - Duty of care - Causal link))

(2015/C 389/50)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Hüpeden & Co. (GmbH & Co.) KG (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by K. Landry, lawyer)

Defendants: Council of the European Union (represented by J.-P. Hix, acting as Agent, assisted initially by D. Geradin and N. Tuominen, and subsequently by N. Tuominen, lawyers); and European Commission (represented by T. Maxian Rusche and R. Sauer, acting as Agents)

Re:

Action for damages seeking compensation for the loss allegedly suffered as a result of the adoption of Council Regulation (EC) No 1355/2008 of 18 December 2008 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain prepared or preserved citrus fruits (namely mandarins, etc.) originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ 2008 L 350, p. 35), declared invalid by the judgment of 22 March 2012 in GLS (C-338/10, ECR, EU:C:2012:158).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 212, 7.7.2014.