Van Bael & Bellis successfully represents EU birch plywood producers as interveners in three EU General Court cases brought by Russian birch plywood producers
- 27/09/2024
- News
Earlier this month, the EU General Court handed down three judgments (T-2/22 Sveza Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha et al. v EU Commission; T-3/22 ZHLPK v EU Commission; T-32/22 Vyatsky Plywood Mill v EU Commission) in cases brought by Russian producers challenging the Commission's 2021 Regulation imposing anti-dumping duties on imports of birch plywood from Russia. The General Court rejected all the Russian producers’ claims and fully upheld the Commission’s Regulation.
The judgments, delivered on 11 September 2024, follow from three separate court proceedings lodged by the three largest Russian birch plywood producers (Sveza, Segezha Group and United Panel Group) in January 2022 seeking to overturn the Commission’s Regulation on various grounds, including procedural aspects of the original administrative investigation leading to imposition of definitive anti-dumping duties. The Court rejected all the Russian producers’ pleas in law and ordered them to pay the costs of the proceedings. The Russian producers have until 21 November 2024 to decide whether to appeal the judgments before the EU Court of Justice.
The EU birch plywood producers, who intervened in support of the Commission, were represented by the Van Bael & Bellis, led by partner Yuriy Rudyuk with important contributions from counsel Sergiy Beketov and Steve Ross.
