Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 15 September 2016 —
Cargill v Council

(Case T‑117/14)

Dumping — Imports of biodiesel originating in Argentina — Definitive anti-dumping duty — Action for annulment — Direct concern — Individual concern — Admissibility — Article 2(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Normal value — Production costs

1.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Individual concern — Criteria — Regulation imposing anti-dumping duties — Action by an exporter of the product affected by that duty, expressly mentioned in the regulation — Admissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 30-32)

2.                     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 and second paras) (see paras 40-44, 48-71)

3.                     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 74-76)

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) in so far as it imposes an anti-dumping duty on the applicant.

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 Cargill SACI;

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

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