Language of document :

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 30 November 2006 - Heuschen & Schrouff Oriëntal Foods v Commission

(Case T-382/04) 1

(Customs union - Rice paper from Vietnam - Remission of import duties - Equitable relief - Article 239 of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 - Error of the customs authority - Definition of manifest negligence - Principle of equal treatment - Principle of sound administration - Principle of proportionality)

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Applicant: Heuschen & Schrouff Oriëntal Foods Trading BV (Landgraaf, Netherlands) (represented by: H. de Bie, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: X. Lewis, Agent, assisted by F. Tuytschaever, lawyer)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Decision REM 19/2002 of 17 June 2004 finding the remission of import duties in a particular case to be unjustified

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the application.

Orders the applicant to bear its own costs, as well as those incurred by the Commission.

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1 - OJ C 6, 8.1.2005.