Judgment of the General Court of 19 April 2012 -Würth and Fasteners v Council
(Case T-162/09)
(Actions for annulment - Dumping - No individual concern - Inadmissibility)
Language of the case: German
Parties
Applicants: Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG (Künzelsau, Germany) and Arnold Fasteners (Shenyang) Co. Ltd (Shenyang, China) (represented by: M. Karl and M. Mayer, lawyers)
Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: initially J.-P. Hix, Agent, assisted by G. Berrisch and G. Wolf, lawyers, then J.-P. Hix and B. Driessen, Agents, assisted by G. Berrisch)
Parties intervening in support of the defendant: European Commission: (represented by: H. van Vliet and B. Martenczuk, Agent); and European Industrial Fasteners Institute AISBL (EIFI) (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: initially J. Bourgeois, Y. van Gerven and E. Wäktare, then J. Bourgeois, lawyers)
Re:
Application for annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 91/2009 of 26 January 2009 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the People's Republic of China (OJ 2009 L 29, p. 1).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action as inadmissible.
Orders Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG and Arnold Fasteners (Shenyang) Co. Ltd to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union and by the European Industrial Fasteners Institute AISBL.
Order the European Commission to bear its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 167, 18.07.2009.