EUR-Lex -  61997TO0256 - EN - Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber, extended composition) of 1 February 1999. - Bureau européen des unions de consommateurs (BEUC) v Commission of the European Communities. - Antidumping investigation - Consumers association - Refusal of recognition as interested party - Application for annulment - Expiry of regulation imposing provisional antidumping duty - Legal interest to proceed - No need to adjudicate. - Case T-256/97.

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Actions for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Action contesting a decision which has already been implemented

(EC Treaty, Art. 173)

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The legal interest of a consumers' association in maintaining an action for annulment of a Commission decision refusing to recognise it as an interested party for the purposes of an anti-dumping proceeding can continue to exist even when that decision has already been implemented. The annulment of such a decision is capable, of itself, of having legal consequences and particularly that of preventing a repetition of the Commission's practice.

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