30Secondly, the applicant's argument as to infringement of the general principle of law enshrined, inter alia, in the International Covenant is invalid. Without there being any need to consider whether that argument constitutes a new plea in law within the meaning of Article 48(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court, it should be noted that Article 15 of the Covenant relates only to persons charged with a criminal offence in the course of legal proceedings and is therefore unconnected with anti-dumping investigations which are not criminal in nature (see, by way of analogy, Case 374/87 Orkem v Commission [1989] ECR 3283, paragraph 31). Furthermore, Article 2(6)(iii) of Regulation No 3283/94, which the applicant claims should be applied, relates to the method of calculating the constructed normal value. It is therefore clearly unrelated to the imposition of penalties or sanctions to which the principle relied on is said to apply.
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