CJEU - C 456/13 P / Judgment

T & L Sugars and Sidul Açúcares v Commission
Policy area
External trade
Deciding body type
Court of Justice of the European Union
Deciding body
Court (Grand Chamber)
Decision date
28/04/2015
ECLI (European case law identifier)
ECLI:EU:C:2015:284

Χάρτης των Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης

  • CJEU - C 456/13 P / Judgment

    Key facts of the case:

    By their appeal, T & L Sugars Ltd and Sidul Açúcares, Unipessoal Lda (‘T & L Sugars’ and ‘Sidul Açúcares’, respectively,) seek to have set aside the judgment of the General Court in T&L Sugars and Sidul Açúcares Commission (T‑279/11, EU:T:2013:299; ‘the judgment under appeal’), by which that court dismissed their action for annulment of Commission Regulation (EU) No 222/2011 of 3 March 2011 laying down exceptional measures as regards the release of out-of-quota sugar and isoglucose on the Union market at reduced surplus levy during marketing year 2010/2011 (OJ 2011 L 60, p. 6), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 293/2011 of 23 March 2011 fixing allocation coefficient, rejecting further applications and closing the period for submitting applications for available quantities of out-of-quota sugar to be sold on the Union market at reduced surplus levy (OJ 2011 L 79, p. 8), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 302/2011 of 28 March 2011 opening an exceptional import tariff quota for certain quantities of sugar in the 2010/11 marketing year (OJ 2011 L 81, p. 8) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 393/2011 of 19 April 2011 fixing the allocation coefficient for the issuing of import licences applied for from 1 to 7 April 2011 for sugar products under certain tariff quotas and suspending submission of applications for such licences (OJ 2011 L 104, p. 39)(collectively, ‘the contested regulations’).

    Results (sanctions) and key consequences of the case:

    the Court (Grand Chamber) hereby

    1. Dismisses the appeal;
    2. Orders T & L Sugars Ltd and Sidul Açúcares, Unipessoal Lda to pay the costs.