Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber, extended composition) of 17 March 2005.#Comité des industries du coton et des fibres connexes de l'Union européenne (Eurocoton) v Council of the European Union.#Dumping - Failure by the Council to adopt a Commission proposal for a regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty - Absence of simple majority necessary for the adoption of a regulation - Obligation to state reasons.#Case T-192/98.

Subject of the case

Re:

ACTION for the annulment of the Council’s decision of 5 October 1998 rejecting the proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain unbleached cotton fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 773/98 of 7 April 1998 (OJ 1998 L 111, p. 19) and terminating the anti-dumping proceeding in respect of imports of these fabrics originating in Turkey, submitted by the Commission of the European Communities on 21 September 1998 (document COM(1998) 540 final)

Operative part

Operative part

The Court:

1. Annuls the Council’s decision of 5 October 1998 rejecting the Commission’s proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain unbleached cotton fabrics originating in the People’s Republic of China, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed by Regulation (EC) No 773/98 (OJ 1998 L 111, p. 19) and terminating the anti-dumping proceeding in respect of imports of these fabrics originating in Turkey, submitted by the Commission of the European Communities on 21 September 1998 (document COM(1998) 540 final);

2. Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs;

3. Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own costs.