ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SEVENTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
20 June 2014 (1)
(Removal from the register)
In Case T-557/11,
Elsid SA, established in Titu (Roumania),
ESD-SIC BV, established in Delfzijl (Kingdom of the Netherlands),
ESK-SIC GmbH, established in Frechen (Germany),
Navarro SIC, SA, established in Madrid (Kingdom of Spain), represented by B. Evtimov, lawyer,
applicants,
v
European Commission, represented by A. Stobiecka-Kuik Agnieszka and J.-F. Brakeland, acting as Agents,
defendant,
APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 5934 final of 24 August 2011 rejecting the request for initiation of an expiry review of the anti-dumping measures on imports of silicon carbide originating in the People’s Republic of China, pursuant to Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009.
1 By letter lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 6 June 2014, the applicants informed the Court in accordance with Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure that they wished to discontinue proceedings and requested, pursuant to Article 87(5) of the Rules of Procedure, that each party bears its own costs.
2 By letter lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 12 June 2014, the defendant informed the Court that it had no objections to the application for discontinuance and requested, pursuant to Article 87(5) of the Rules of Procedure, that the applicants be ordered to bear their own costs and the costs incurred by the defendant.
3 The first subparagraph of Article 87(5) of the Rules of Procedure provides that a party who discontinues or withdraws from proceedings shall be ordered to pay the costs if they have been applied for in the observations of the other party on the discontinuance. In the present case, the defendant requested that the applicants be ordered to bear their own costs and the costs incurred by the defendant.
4 The case will therefore be removed from the register and the applicants ordered to pay their own costs and the costs incurred by the defendant.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SEVENTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
hereby orders:
1. Case T-557/11 is removed from the register of the General Court.
2. The applicants shall bear their own costs and the costs incurred by the defendant.
Luxembourg, 20 June 2014.
E. Coulon | | M. Van der Woude |