Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 15 September 2016 —
PT Musim Mas v Council

(Case T‑80/14)

Dumping — Imports of biodiesel originating in Indonesia — Definitive collection of provisional anti-dumping duties — Definitive anti-dumping duties — Rights of the defence — Article 2(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Normal value — Production costs

1.                     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 paras 35-37)

2.                     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. 39)

3.                     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 65-69, 73-97)

4.                     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 100-102)

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).

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 Perindustrian dan Perdagangan Musim Semi Mas (PT Musim Mas);

2. Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by PT Musim Mas;

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